Mountain bikers and hunters are butting heads in Colorado over wildlife, access, and public lands
Oct 6, 2022
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In April, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, a hunting education and advocacy organization, circulated a press release offering a $500 reward “for reports or information leading to a conviction of those responsible for illegal trail construction on public lands.” In other words, the national nonprofit placed what amounted to a bounty on mountain bikers building illegal trails.
The Colorado chapter of BHA sent the press release directly to two publications: Boulder’sDaily Cameranewspaper and theMountain Ear, which services Nederland, a town 18 miles up Boulder Canyon. The bounty technically applies to the entire state of Colorado, but the memo indicated that it was targeted at…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Not only hunters versus mountain bikers but also wildlife conservationists versus mountain bikers. Mountain biking encroaches on wildlife as mountain bikers seem insensitive to where they want to mountain bike. Of course, hunting and mountain biking is an encroachment on wildlife.
Right. And nature in general.