One of the easiest ways to help cities and land managers to feel more comfortable with urban mountain biking is to feel like they have control over mountain biking, but also that it’s not totally on them. From the standpoint of a mountain biking club and the land manager the maintenance of, management of and control of trails, being partners can bring great benefits to all involved. How can you codify a partnership between your local mountain biking club and the land managers? With a document called a “Memorandum of Understanding". Let’s look at what a memorandum of understanding is and how you can create one that is both useful and simple to understand for all parties.
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Every land manager and mountain biking club relationship should be built on trust. But trust only gets you so far. Personnel and directors will change with the land manager. Volunteers and board members will come and go. So, it’s best to have everything understood and hashed out between all the interested parties so there is no confusion later. Memorandums of Understanding are the best way to do this. If you have an existing set of trails and are operating without a memorandum of understanding, please take this article as a wake-up call and start working on one today.
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