Mountain Biking Case Signals Crackdown on Rogue Trail Building

Mountain Biking Case Signals Crackdown on Rogue Trail Building

Mike Snyder carried his muzzleloader through thick underbrush in the Mount Mansfield State Forest on a late-October day in 2020, hunting for deer. In a steep, wooded section, Snyder, then the state’s top forestry official, stumbled across something that stopped him in his tracks: a narrow dirt trail. The path was oddly clear of the leaves that had settled on the rest of the forest floor. He didn’t recall the state having approved any new trails …