Scotts Flat Lake Trail Project

TRIBUTE TRAIL SUSPENSION BRIDGE TRAIL This is one of my favorite places to share with people. It is a manifestation of my ultimate dream of local artists and craftsmen contributing to our desire for beautiful outdoor experiences. This gives you a rare view into the making of the river art integrated into the stone walls. Ferrocement, love and creativity. You can also see our gravity chutes delivering stone and materials. We built three of these to eliminate impacts to th...e adjacent vegetation. I feel inspired to bring all of our silo'd organizations and amazing business community around this vision in a way that fear of change and ego does not stop, for example, our offers to fund and develop the sugar loaf trail which still lays fallow four years later. I would love to see simple dirt paths within public road easements that acknowledge the need to be mobile, active and safe without being hit by cars. But most of all, I would love understand how to engage people who have these community building skills to trust this vision and help us bring people together. Peace out and reach out

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This 8 year long effort to develop an amazing trail system at Scotts Flat Lake is now dead.. $500,000 grant wasted and thrown away by NID and BONC club leaders for no reason other than some people are haters and wanted the venue for their enduro bike event exclusively. NID’s Recreation Director, Peggy Davidson was a hero to the community for her final gift and vision of this project. Instead she was forced into early retirement and her grant and project killed. I am dis...appointed with our community’s capability to support, protect and develop our trails master plan even when it is handed projects on a silver platter. I would love to see our community pursue clarity about what happened and how to prevent it again in the future so we can be more resilient with our shared goals. As a professional trail builder and a major capital contributor (over $60,000 for this project alone), I will be crafting elsewhere till this is resolved and community efforts are more protected and supported. Restorative Justice needed... Peace out. Z

HELP! 8 days left to save over $500,000 of public funding for the largest trail project ever in western nevada county. Why was the managing NID recreation director forced out, why was NC Councilman Strauser using public office to take over this grant under the radar for a new race venue. ... Why did the trail get changed without permission, stakeholder input or permits. Why oh why can’t we have good things. YOUR MISSION: Rescue our community trail project from double dealing politics. * Call your NID Board Reps. *Request NC Mayor Senum investigate their councilman’s actions *Get involved in our local bike club and offer compassionate leadership *Encourage the BYLT to be supportive of our community trail projects *Encourage the Union and Yubanet to cover stories that involve their advertisers Zachi has done all he can. He is out of town developing a 40 m trail on the coast. It’s up to us!!

Getting warmed up for the big Scotts project https://youtu.be/DdsokvD_PsE

Heading up to the mountains this weekend! If you have never explored the trails around historic Forest City this may be a great opportunity. Over 60 miles of meandering paths connecting spectacular views, waterfalls and stone arched bridges. This week, local volunteers are pitching in to help clean the trails and cut back growth to make the trails awesome. The Knights are a super fun group to check out if you are looking for a fun and playful group doing great things. They currently are building 50miles of new trail creating new legacy 100mile trail experiences in cooperation with the USFS. Chip in and check it out... https://www.meetup.com/YubaTrailsStewards/events/270699356/

For years I looked up to agencies with god like respect, and I am still amazed at what can be accomplished when we bring resources together. But I also have to painfully become aware of what happens to our public interests when misaligned people take over recreation positions. We have worked with State Parks, USFS, Countys, BLM, Citys, NGOs and Special Use Districts like NID. All these organizations are great and I have worked with them all for years developing community ...trail projects. But they are only as good as their current representative and that has changed a lot in 30 years. The Pro NID recreation person I worked with for 10 years was recently forced out just before her project I have been supporting was undermined. If you dont understand how vulnerable water districts are to abuse by special interests, check this out...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3saU5racsGE See more

For those who were not involved in building the first Scotts Flat Lake Trail, this is the guy who made it all happen with the collaboration and leadership from NID's Recreation Director Peggy Davidson. It was 8 years of patient efforts, fundraising and collaboration. Zachi to all of our benefit has beat the same drum of support for our regional trails for decades. So it is to all of our surprise to hear of individuals who are attempting to smear his reputation by saying he ...cannot work with others and is somehow scamming our community with his decades of volunteer work. The same people tried to use their position on the Council to have him removed from the Suspension Bridge Project. We are glad they failed, what a remarkable project. The same folks recently sent letters to Americorps and got our staff removed at the new Yuba Trails Stewardship who had been organizing our efforts at Scotts. To those who forcibly pushed Peggy Davidson from her job and opportunity to complete this amazing project, shame. She deserved better. For those attempting to take over the grant and project under the radar, we all request that you get your enduro race needs in a more collaborative and less hurtful way. Our local bike club was not formed to be used as a hurtful tool. This grant and project specifically were meant for all our community members, so give back the maintenance to Yuba Stewards so we can all care for our trail and stop putting berms and jumps on the multi use trail. Scotts Flat Project Team

Folks, I love the Scotts Flat Lake vision and goals. It has been an amazing 8 years volunteering for this community vision and the biggest gift I had hoped to bring my community. I wish to apologize for how hard this is for me to share. My friend Eric recently gave me good coaching. And while I do my best, sometimes my anger and sadness gets in the way of me letting you know my needs and what I am feeling. I know many are impatient with the lack of trail resources, organiza...Continue reading

Zaki‘s vision of crafting amazing legacy trails is exciting. it is clear that Trail building in this area can be intense. We appreciate his commitment to grow our shared capacity while supporting a wide range of different types of trail experiences. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_OOBQUnaoP/

An stewardship is an critical part of organizing around our trails vision. All the trails we currently have need organized care. But most importantly, we need to all work together. Come learn how to craft these sweet stone arched bridges. 30 planned for Scotts!

No Better HORSE to ride to glory but a CRAZY one. Time to celebrate our connection to each other and this amazing vision of great trails! Lets get our trails vision rocking and support an institution that can bring our efforts together around a common table.

Time to get er done!!

The growing awareness of how important a stewardship will be to serve our shared trails vision is exciting to see. I love the idea of creating clear intentions, vision and purpose and then connecting with the awesome people who actually show up to make it happen.

At some point, our community needs to grapple with what is needed to achieve our trail infrastructure goals. We definitely want more recreational tourism and connective trails and we have the wealth and potential volunteers. What we don’t have is a single organization that represents all our collective efforts and fills in the gap’s between. As director of Forest Trail’s alliance, and a big supporter and contributor to our community’s trail vision, I would like to request ...more volunteer leader ship in my bike club BONC specifically that will work with our community trail stewardship to support the Scott’s flat trail project. I think our bike club should play a valuable role in our community trail vision, and we will need leader ship aligned with building an more harmonious and collective approach. While you may have heard that folks running the bike club are supporting this $1.2 million trail expansion at Scotts flat, the truth is, that they have taken our community trail maintenance agreement against our legal contract issued by the state of California. This occurred without a single conversation. After, Duane publicly admitted that they tried to take our grant. At a board meeting I went to to request support, I was treated poorly and the only willingness to support the project offered was half a day of maintenance in april. The trail has since been altered club reps into a race course with high beams and jumps without consent to the stakeholders and against previously agreed Multi-use Trail standards. These guys acting on our behalf have tried to take over our federal grant issued to our licensed and insured multi use trail org. This is bad. State Parks and private attorneys have confirmed we have a legal right to start project but we would like to start this amazing project in harmony and aligned rather than disrupted. Help support a more harmonious and successful future by making sure your favorite community group joins our local YubaTrails Stewardship to weave a more resilient and thoughtful structure of support for our trails vision.

Learn about the latest news on Scotts Flat trails at this event hosted by the Yuba Trails Stewardship! YTS is all about supporting local trails by bringing volunteers, land managers, businesses, civic groups, and local organizations together under the same banner.

We are currently seeking support or resolution related to the taking of our capacity to care for our Scotts flat Trail we built and paid for. We are also aski...ng for community representatives willing to serve on a community council representing trail user types and organizations. We all need to work together. These trails are for all of us. It is important especially when community funds and public property are utilized to make sure there is fair and balanced planning for access for all recreation users. Our multi use community trail has been hi jacked and is being changed to suit speeding cyclists while marginalizing the safety and experiences of hikers, runners, dog walkers and more. Illegal and unsanctioned rerouting of the trail, shortcuts, berms and jumps now litter the once gradual multi use trail. Don’t call me and complain. We can’t get a straight answer either from NID and my own bike club told me to f*#&k off when I pleaded my case before the self appointed volunteer board. So, you want to see 12 miles of sweet new trail, 30 stone arched art bridges and another 150ft suspension bridge installed with the $600,000 public grant we got... HELP US HELP YOU! Join YTS and volunteer!

Thank Joel for a quick report of a tree across the trail. Any one available to cut out a fallen tree over upper Scotts Flat trail? Super excited to see the Yuba Trails Stewardship getting going to help organize the care our trails need. ... Till then I will help pass the word people send me. Peace out Zachi

This week has been so awesome working with a great crew. Crafting great trail.

The Yuba Trails Stewardship is accepting nominations to people who would like to serve on a Trails Advisory Council. The purpose is to bring representative individuals inspired to work together to provide input and support for advancing our need for organized care of an connective system of trails for transit and recreation. The stewardship is also looking for support from volunteers willing to help organize and lead efforts related to our $1.2 million dollar publicly funded Scotts project. This goal will provide a valuable new ADA trail as well as connectivity around the lake. Please send a note to. [email protected] or [email protected]

Help support this project. We need advocates!!

This is a great photo, and we should definitely have some of our own cups made. There’s no room for hate and disrespect in the wonderful world of crafting trails.

12 miles of new trail, 30 amazing art bridges, 150 foot suspension bridge and a new 6 mile trail to cascade shores. Our irrigation district is considering canceling support for this project including a $600,000 public grant we have received and over $100,000 of independently raised funds. Please let NID know that this type of infrastructure and public funding is important to our community.... Please consider encouraging the current volunteer leadership of my club BONC to return our maintenance contract and support development of trails for all users. The current only connector between the lake and Pioneer Trail that I personally designed and built is being modified without my consent and without a plan for hikers or other users to utilize safely.

Time to rise up lovers of trails! Grant funds are now active and we are seeking to hire staff to develop this amazing community project. Volunteer Crew Leaders Equipment operators Artists Community Outreach... If you are a inspired representatives of a local community group, please have your needs heard and join our active advisory group. Send inquiries to info@yubatrailsstewardship. org Thanks for your support of Yuba Trails Stewardship and our vision of awesome connective trails for everyone. See more

RIP 7 years and an awesome vision.

The Scotts Flat Lake Trail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SP8sHh4IKA

So thankful for everyone that contributed to our first project at Scotts. After 6 years of planning environmental work and fundraising we are finally ready for the $1.2million phase II, 16 miles of trail, 30+ bridges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2TydnCg3X0

If you care about our community having this amazing project happen... get involved.

Another super sweet local community project. Contribute and volunteer and not only support a legacy of great trail for our region but learn great things, have great experiences and be healthy and outdoors.

So stoked to see people organizing care for this awesome trail. If we are going to craft a more extensive network, maintenance is critical. Yuba Trails Stewardship acknowledges BONC for caring for the trails we love. Please come out and help!! Big 12 mile trail expansion starts in March!!! Sign up!

Excited to see our mountain bike community have such sweet opportunity. Volunteer Staff Positions available for this project. Belong to a club or civic group? Volunteer and give cred to your group with monthly stats, and receive awards and gear. This 20 mile meandering 5% descent into Downieville will provide new opportunities for this mountain bike and hiking destination. Best of all it will be crafted by community volunteers promoted through our new Trail Stewardship Group, Hosted by the Knights of the Pithia Trail Fraternity House in Forest and Managed by Forest Trails Alliance. Help grow our love.

Join the love team!

Come and join a community of people committed to contributing to our state having a great network of trails between and within communities.

I would like to invite everybody who would like to support or find out more about the Scott’s flat trail project to come by this Saturday at noon at our trail center in Nevada city. Pictured below. It is our goal to have this be a volunteer project like our previous one in order to accomplish our goals with the limited amount of revenue we have available. So let’s explore how we can have crafting these trails be a fantastic experience that will motivate future investment and ...engagement. If you are willing to lead a small group, provide a service, or have unique professional skills to contribute, please step up, this is our first need.

Lets have Scotts Flat Project be great. Now accepting volunteers for staff positions on this amazing project. Help promote the need we have for great outdoor experiences for our community and safe ways to be healthy and outdoors.

Great things coming to the Scotts Flat Project this spring.

Stop by and sign up for a crew position!!! This project has gone LIVE!

5 years ago today I put the finishing touches on the Scotts stone arch bridge. Now we are getting ready to build 30 of them And over 12 miles of new trail.

This is the big moment as we start the next phase of the Scotts Project. Come by our booth at the 5 mile house venue to check out the new project, Yuba Trails Stewardship and the different ways you can volunteer or contribute to our communities trails vision.

The Yuba trails stewardship is born. Support our local efforts to care for our trails and craft an expansive connective network between and within our communities.

Two big effort this weekend. Join us flagging the next major trail project. The 30 mile trapper project. Help with maintaining our great trails in four city or join our neighbors celebrating Mills Peak and another killer party.

Just to be clear, this is the power of a Trail stewardship that represents all user groups and sustained relationships of service with land managers. Support Yuba Trails Stewardship, and the 62 miles of shovel ready Trail we are building in our community.

Just finished this amazing sport arched bridge. Our sport class bridges are four feet or narrower, no railings and cambered natural surface decks that are cambered for flow. 30 of these mothers on our new Scotts project. We are looking for crew leaders and volunteer project staff soon for this amazing 16 mile project. Send interests or inquiries to [email protected]

Amazing effort crafting another great trail. Building a vision of service and community means getting beyond ego. Listening and respecting all stakeholders is difficult but rewarding especially for smaller towns like ours. Please check our meet up page for opportunities to support thoughtful organization of our shared goals. NID meeting tonight at 6pm. Consider supporting our effort to create a shared platform for all interest groups to be included and represented. Yuba Trails Stewardship. Our regional platform for businesses, clubs, organizations and individuals to support sustained land manager relationships, volunteer training, shared resources and a connective Trails vision.

Building legacy Trail is like crafting a great home brew with love and attention to detail and the idea of sharing something awesome with your community. On our 2nd Trail of the season, Dry Foot Trail in Napa. Insanely intense cat 5 level building with structural stone arched bridges, 100% side-slopes and winches and hoists sometimes the only thing suspending the 4000lb excavator like a fat spider on a web. In early winter we are up two hours before light leaving as ligh...t creeps into the canyon and returning behind wavering headlights at the end of the day. The base camp is a oasis of light with floodlights lighting the massive oak above and icicle Christmas lights dangling around the parameter. Music brings cheer to the small dry space and the kitchen a place of activity. We are 2200 ft into the perilous effort on our 13 day. It feels like the suspension bridge project the going is so slow. If you love the outdoors and great trails...and would like to join our staff of lovers, give us s shout, hiring for our second crew now. See more

While my fingernails still reflect my passion for dirt, they ride the keyboard now as we address what is needed for great trails. https://coastaltrailsstewardship.blogspot.com/

OP ED CRAFTING TRAILS by Zachi Anderson [The destructive power of Ego and what is in the way of organizations pulling together for community infrastructure]... "You have to understand one thing about trail building. We all understand Trails. This makes us believe we can all build trail, and we probably all can. We all have our own instincts, but what we have to do is back up that instinct with something called, craft. Craft is sweet distillation of time spent learning the depth and essence of any skill till there is a homogeny of intention and capability. Like worn driftwood, time shapes the nuances of character. I would love to demystify the roll of the project manager and trail designer, and promote on-site experiences and opportunities that expand understanding and ability. Beyond the dirt, the tools and sweat is connection to our common goals and the even bigger challenge of managing shared interests. The paths we walk and the inspirations we seek are not limited to a single parcel or jurisdiction. Connection like a skipping rock touches many interests and does not recognize preferences or ideal partners. It requires a deep commonality and recognition of the importance of community movement to overcome fear and indifference. That fabric we are all a part of requires strong hands of intent and a steady needle of focus to weave our goals of connective trails. Collaboration fails all the time. Everything we do in this process fails all the time. It is a cascade of challenge. Each challenge is an opportunity to dig deeper, refine and overcome. Even though you alone articulate this roll of artist and director of a lot of ideas, that alone will never make the project work. We all want the same thing, a great moment, a great experience, a great trail. Collaboration. This is what it takes right?" [Zachi Anderson is the Executive Director and Founder of Forest Trails Alliance, a regional non-profit trail organization. Member of the Professional Trails Builders Assn and 25 year veteran of building trails and community effort. FTA currently is supporting over $2.5million dollars of regional trail projects and has developed over 70 miles of regional trails. His OP ED is in reference to challenges related to bringing special use groups and civic organizations together behind community trail development.]

Many of you know of the large milled log bench near the top of scotts trail. Here you can see how we moved the fallen tree 300ft down to the trail for milling.

CREW TRAINING AND SIGN UPS Learn to craft trails like Blair taking this knarly descent with our shape machine! This project will be Volunteer Based and funded. PM me if you are interested in Crew and training opportunities. \https://www.facebook.com/ForestTrailsAlliance/videos/4567120468773/

This is a 20ft radius spiral trail feature that swings around a large oak cluster through a tunnel made from Ferrocement. Lets do more like this on Scotts!!!! https://www.facebook.com/ForestTrailsAlliance/videos/4275298973418/

The first trail effort was a total success. 5 miles of trail built, all volunteer. Designed and constructed by Forest Trails Alliance with support from BYLT, GCTC, STAR, BONC, Gold Country Hikers, YBONC and more... Special thanks to all the community members who donated time to build this trail!!! Next effort will reflect 7 new trails and 16 miles of trail with 30 bridges including another suspension bridge. Join ups soon!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SP8sHh4IKA

Love this vision

Having a blast at Lake Berryessa building trail. Raised over $50,000 already for Scotts. Finished the last bridge today!!!

A community with no connection to the dirt they love is a sad thing. Help maintain the Scotts flat trail. Who can help?

Two more bridges left at Berryessa after the finishing touches are done with this beauty. Great project so far with lots accomplished.

Zachi's Indian Hill recon has been rescheduled. New plan is sexy machine built trail finished by dirt nymphs at Lake Berryessa. We are almost finished with 7 ...miles of sweet lakeside flow. The new Hobie cat sail boat whispers hushed encouragement from the shore and soft wind nudges me in that direction. But don't be sad... I have a place at the table for you trail lovers and givers of great times. Beaded sweat freckles a lush chilled green bottle of Sierra Nevada and food spills from our stuff refrigerator. Come taste the flavor of contribution and celebrate the last of this amazing 3 year project. Cotton button up crew shirts, patches and a piece of this effort to build a 127 mile trail along the North and East sides of the lake can be yours! Friday through Sunday. 7850 Knoxville-Berryessa rd. 530 205 6618. Zach See more

Get the dirt on Scotts!

We have raised around $50,000 so far this year learning our craft and preparing for the big Scott's project. We have 30 bridges like the one we just finished here to build at Scott's. OMG. I can't wait!

ARCH WORK COMPLETE In the world of trail efforts, you get the opportunity to work with all kinds of professional outdoor people. We were lucky enough to connect wth local cascade shores resident Sharon Waechter to complete our historic survey. Sharon is a professional archaeologist of the more hardy variety than the spectacled arm chair type. Not only did she survive the knarly terrain the trail traverses but she was not fooled by the pig bones and cosco artifacts we scattered along the corridor. With years of experience and skills she brings to this fascinating study we are lucky to have her. Thanks so much Sharon for your support of this great community project.

TRAIL LOVERS Efforts in Napa with the Moore Creek Stewardship and Tuleyome Berryessa Project are ramping up with three crews building currently. $2.7m in shovel ready projects we are chewing away at including our own beloved Scotts. Archeology will be complete soon on Scotts and it will be time to begin to build our team who will help organize and lead this 20 mile trail system (30bridges).... Earn veteran exp, critical skills and gear by joining our Napa Efforts and help us raise the $200k we will need for scotts (in addition to the RTP grant). We will be looking for crew leaders, project planners, construction workers, stone masons and more. Volunteer and staff applications on Indeed.com

Project X Napa Into our 3rd week building this incredible trail to both raise funds for scotts as well as train crew. The new 16mile trail expansion at Scotts will be awesome but we need to raise $120,000 minimum to compliment the grant we got. We will be hiring essential staff and accepting sweet crew position requests. Improve your qualifications and scoring by getting involved now to raise funds or build with us and getting cert'd for a range of skills from arbor work to... equipment operation. Inquire more at [email protected]

Highly recommended!

FTA GENERAL UPDATE First Saturday Dirt Day is today, Contribute, Create, Celebrate. (if you are part of a trail user group, post an event!) Trail Center... Open house today at our new trail center in Nevada City. Interior walls are coming along. Last night we completed two more gargoyles. Good times. Framing/drywall 10am-1pm Rigging Practice for Scotts http://meetu.ps/e/BZ5qY/wZgSy/f Jon Fisher and Carol Singer will be collaborating on the front planters with some great native plants. Mech area is coming along. Plenty of white board tasks in this area. Contact Brad, Zach or Tom for Mech Team interest. Scotts Parking Lot Drew, Alex, Roger and a few others will be collaborating on new rock work for planters at Scotts Parking. That place is looking awesome. NID will be procuring the parking fee elements, we will be developing the signage with help from Lisa and Ed as well as volunteers with our carving team.

Cant wait to start our recon adventure phase for this project!

Local stakeholders are welcome to join FTA and NID tonight for a short Q&A session about the upcoming project. Bring beverages and snacks to share, we will see you there. 530 pm Thursday @ the marina BBQ area west side.

Project Planning Scotts Flat Lake Trail Expansion Project is underway and FTA will be introducing the project and inviting folks who have contracting or project... management skills to joining our team. Specifically, we are looking for people with experience with event planning, food prep, entertainment, contracting, engineering, planning and project management. Consider making the big contribution to our community by helping expand our recreational infrastructure for generations to come... All volunteer staff receive many perks and rewarding experiences....find out more! https://www.meetup.com//e/233256741/i3/fbsd_event_details