Pine Nut Mountains Trails Association

Preserving Public Lands for Public Use

Contact PNMTA

Email: info@pnmta.org
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 3012
Gardnerville, NV 89410

IMPORTANT STUFF! ACT NOW

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Tuesday, May 2nd, Congress will conduct hearings regarding the Antiquities Act. Tuesday will be a national day of action in support of the the reasonable review of the overreach of unilateral designations of National Monuments including the Utah monuments, which are broadly considered the most grievous land grabs in recent times and now being considered in this executive order. 

On Tuesday, we encourage you to contact DOI Secretary Ryan Zinke and your elected officials to share how you feel about America’s right to enjoy rightful and reasonable fair access to our public lands. Here is Zinke’s email form: https://www.doi.gov/feedback and phone number: (202) 208-3100. He’s on at: twitter@SecretaryZinke. Click here: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials to find your elected officials.

Be advised the environmentalists are all over this and will be doing all they can to protect their one sided view of dictating their narrow- minded agenda of  public land use control which is now threatened.

Come out and help clean up the Pine Nuts!

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Saturday, May 14, 2016 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Staging at the end of Johnson Lane

Sunday, May 15, 2016 9:00 am to 2:00 pm
Staging at the First Pit on the Left Pine Nut Road 2, Gardnerville, Nevada
Drive toward the Douglas Co. Fairgrounds. Turn left on Pine Nut Rd. 2.5 mile.

The Pine Nut Mountains Trail Association will provide dumpsters, garbage bags, trash location maps and GPS coordinates.

Drinking water, and free post-cleanup lunch and porta potty will be provided.

Please bring a pickup truck andor utility trailer, Quad, UTV, or just a strong back, rakes, shovels, gloves, sturdy shoes, hats and sunscreen.

Thank you Douglas Disposal, V&C Construction and Carson Motorsports

For more info: Please call Doug Holcomb 530-414-5178 or email gomodough@gmail.com

It really makes a difference!

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The 1st annual PNMTA Poker Run

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The 1st annual PNMTA Poker  Run

Sunday, September 27th 

Poker Run Details

  • $20 Ante (Seven card stud, High/Low split)
  • Easy course
  • All two track – quads and UTV’s are welcome
  • Approx 30 mile loop
  • Not a race
  • Start & finish at 662 Stagecoach Rd
  • Rsvp to Judi.tahoe@gmail.com

After the Ride…

  • Burgers, Snack Food & Soft Drinks
  • You don’t have to ride. Just come on by and hang out
  • BYOB

Poker run leaves around 10 am

Party starts about Noon

Directions:

In Ruhenstroth area

South on 395 past G’ville 7-11

LEFT on PALOMINO

Right on MUSTANG

Corner of Mustang and Stagecoach

662 Stagecoach rd

 

 

 

 

Come Join us for the Annual Middlegate Station ride!

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March 20th will be our big middle gate event.   The middlegate ride is an overnight event we have at middlegate station, nv.  It’s about 40 miles past Fallon on hwy 50.   We arrive Friday afternoon and ride all day on Saturday.  It’s typically around a hundred mile ride on tough technical trails, sandwashes and mountains.

Middlegate has cheap hotel rooms, good food and drinks.   I have a room booked two nights for 60 bucks total!   RV parking is free.

This is one of our most fun events! We look forward to seeing you. We can talk about it more the monthly meeting on the 10th.    There might be a separate shorter/easier ride (quads and SxS’s too) depending on the folks who are coming out.

 

 

Trails Appreciation Day! Sunday, Feb 1st

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PNMTA trail day feb 2014Please join us for a day of taking care of our trails. The idea of this event is to maintain and improve one of the trails by fixing bumps and drainage issues. We will be meeting at to AM at the single tree staging area (just past the Gardnerville dump on Pine Nut Rd #2).

We will be meeting at the tree at 10 AM to maintain the “Teacher’s Trail” on the north side of Pine Nut Road.
• Work is planned from 10 until 2 pm.
• Pizza is provided afterwards.
• Bring tools, gloves and everything you need for a safe day working in the desert.
• We will have some tools and gloves to loan out.

These events are really fun! Come on out and build up your trail Karma

PNMTA Monitor pass ride, Monday december 1st

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This Monday should be a great day for riding.  Come join Nate Littrell for an exploratory expedition to the monitor pass area.   We will tailor the ride according to the skill levels of the group.  It will be a 40 mile or more ride, so be sure your gas tank is big and full!

Details:

Meeting place:   1914 Cutter ln, gardnerville in ruhentstroth

Time:  meet at 9:30, rolling at ten

Description:  this ride can be easy two track, or technical single track.  It depends on what the group wants.   There will likely be some snow and mud.   It will be cold, so dress appopriately.

It should be a great day.  Come on out!

Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement

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Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber,

The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest has released the Revised Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Revised DEIS) for the Greater Sage-grouse Bi-State Distinct Population Segment (Bi-state sage-grouse) Forest Plan Amendment. This Bi-state sage-grouse population occurs in portions of Lyon, Mineral, Esmeralda and Douglas counties in Nevada, and in portions of Alpine, Inyo, and Mono counties in California.

The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest proposes to amend the Toiyabe National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to amend the BLM Carson City District and Tonopah Field Office Resource Management Plans to conserve, enhance and/or restore habitats to provide for the long-term viability of the Bi-state sage-grouse.

The management plan amendments will specifically enhance management direction for the Bi-state sage-grouse habitat. The amendments would add additional goals, objectives, standards, and guidelines to the existing management plans to address the key threats identified by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) in its October 28, 2013, proposal to list the Bi-state sage-grouse as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The Revised DEIS was developed to address public comments received on the August 2013 DEIS and to incorporate emerging science that will help guide restoration and habitat improvement projects. The Forest Service and BLM decided to prepare a Revised DEIS in April of 2014, after the USFWS announced the extension of the comment period for the proposed rule and has now delayed the listing decision to April of 2015.

The Revised DEIS displays the effects of the Modified Proposed Action (Alternative B – which is the preferred alternative), an alternative to the Proposed Action, the No Action alternative and Alternative C (the environmental alternative). The Revised DEIS will be available for public review and comment for 90 days following publication of the Notice of Availability in the Federal Register.

Of special note to the OHV community, Alternative B adopts a number of the managed OHV recommendations submitted by the BlueRibbon Coalition, with support from various NV and other OHV organizations. Those OHV standards and guidelines can be found on page 20 of the Revised DEIS.

OHV interests should review those proposed OHV management prescriptions with a special focus on any site-specific impacts they might have on existing casual and permitted OHV recreational activities.

The agencies are encouraging interested parties to review the Revised DEIS and provide input. After the 90-day comment period, the agencies will consider the comments provided, update the analysis and issue a Final EIS.  Based on the analysis in the Final EIS, the BLM and the Forest Service will issue separate Records of Decisions amending their respective management plans.

The Revised DEIS is available at http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/fs-usda-pop.php/?project=40683, or a hard copy may be requested from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest by contacting Susan Joyce at 775-355-5313.

Thanks in advance and, as always, if you have any questions or concerns, please contact BRC.

Don Amador
Western Representative
BlueRibbon Coalition
925-625-6287

The BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) is a national non-profit organization that champions responsible recreation and encourages a strong conservation ethic and individual stewardship, while providing leadership in efforts to keep outdoor recreation alive and well — all sports; all trails. With members in all 50 states, BRC is focused on building enthusiast involvement with organizational efforts through membership, outreach, education

and collaboration among recreationists.

1-800-BLUERIB – www.BlueRibbonCoalition.Org

PNMTA clean-up

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Since the inception of the Pine Nut Mountains Trail Association, one of the most beneficial projects that we have accomplished is our yearly cleanup of illegally dumped garbage in the Pine Nut Mountains.

During our May 2013 cleanup, volunteers picked up over 34,000 lbs of garbage. In June 2014, we picked up over 20,000 lbs.

PNMTA receives an incredible amount of support from local four wheel drive clubs, The Sierra Stompers have shown up in force to help for many years and the Nevada Four Wheel Drive Assoc. has also been a huge help. Many local backcountry users who just want to help clean up the Pine Nuts show up every year. Local businesses such as V&C Construction and Bing Materials have been a huge help, and we couldn’t do this without the generous support of Douglas Disposal Inc.

The date of the cleanups are generally in the spring. Occasionally we will organize two per year. One in  the spring and one in the fall.The location of the cleanup staging area is dependent on where the greatest concentration of garbage dump sites are at that time.

Check back to this web site for current information about our next Pine Nut Mountains cleanup.

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