22 September 2020

Good forward movement from the BYLT Trails Planning Committee!  The entire group has a dozen or so participants.  In the most recent meeting we broke out into three smaller groups - an impressive Zoom feat in and of itself - each of which will focus on a particular area and then report back to the whole.

The three groups are Nevada City/Pioneer, Litton, and Wolf Creek.  Long time board member Terry Hundemer heads up the NC section, Bill Haire the Litton, and Erin Tarr the Wolf Creek project.  Members of the committee could join whichever sub-group they wished.  The Wolf Creek group is comprised of Erin, Shaun Clarke, and myself.

Each group will endeavor to expand their section in multi-directions, fill in some gaps, and ultimately connect the whole darn thing.  For example the Litton group seeks to extend over to Condon Park and up to the Deer Creek Tribute Trail, while including both the Yuba River Charter School and 7-Hills School.

I am thrilled that the Wolf Creek group has just three members, making it easier to move forward.  Our agenda includes the following:

Continue working with the city on the dirt path alternative to the paved Wolf Creek Trail, including placing a bridge over the confluence of the main creek and Little Wolf.  The city is actively involved in this.  Signage will describe the alternative as the Daspah Seyo Trail.

Erin will contact the local manager of the Newmont Mine property.  We hope to have a site meeting soon to discuss the bridge over to that property from Daspah Seyo, a new trail downstream on the conservation easement the BYLT already has, with connections from there up to the North Star House and back across the creek to the Berriman Ranch Trail.

I’ll be checking in with the city of Grass Valley on the status of the Berriman development and also the soon to be trotted out Newmont development. 

I’ll also be checking in with Derek Hitchcock to see how his project is progressing.

Shaun will do some research on the possibilities of connecting the Berriman or main trail with Empire Mine State Park. 

Any further developments on any of this and more will be written about right here!