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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/

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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.

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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!

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