dlstyley Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Thought this might be of interest/use for the guardians of our precious resource. I don’t know much about building or maintaining trails, but this is supposedly a science-based study showing that MTB isn’t much different than hiking in terms of trail impact. https://www.singletracks.com/blog/trail-advocacy/a-science-backed-mtb-impact-review-has-arrived/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cxagent Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 I just saw this post and downloaded the PDF. I have not read it yet. Here is a document I have been using. Ross Martin was a local MTB rider until he earned his Phd and accepted a professorship at Jacksonville State University (I had to google to find him - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ross_Martin7). His dissertation can be found at https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/8154/MARTIN-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Ross did some great research and reporting in scientifically credible papers. His dissertation is extremely helpful to me in defending MTB trails. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioGG Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 3 hours ago, cxagent said: I just saw this post and downloaded the PDF. I have not read it yet. Here is a document I have been using. Ross Martin was a local MTB rider until he earned his Phd and accepted a professorship at Jacksonville State University (I had to google to find him - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ross_Martin7). His dissertation can be found at https://digital.library.txstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10877/8154/MARTIN-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Ross did some great research and reporting in scientifically credible papers. His dissertation is extremely helpful to me in defending MTB trails. I'm about 1/3 of the way through and just now getting to the interesting (to me) parts. Thanks for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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