Worth a watch.

http://vimeo.com/40356150

very apt... but the message I'd like to highlight is the passion that people put in to work with the powers that be to actually change current thinking.

I think BMORC are lucky in that we have plugged away, and managed a win ... and now we need to band together to produce quality trails, have increasing volunteerism, self policing and produce the outcomes for riders, the community and the bushland environments we enjoy riding in.

As a further example of what volunteers are producing, we have been lucky enough to secure potential funding for another IMBA workshop at Yellowmundee following our lantana clearing and other relationship building activities.

This workshop will be more practical with an actual trail building focus. We couldn't have gotten this without first freely giving of our time. Just to list some activities we have undertaken with NPWS in order to progress to these next stages.

i) IMBA Soil Erosion workshop - Yellowmundee
ii) Tree Planting day - Yellowmundee
iii) Fishing Comp - Yellowmundee
iv) Plant ID and Cultural workshop
v) Trail maintenance day - Oaks
vi) Bushcare weed reduction day - Yellowmundee
vii) Trail maintenance day - Oaks
viii) Trail consultation with NPWS & World Trail - Oaks
ix) Trail hosting induction and training - Oaks
x) Trail Hosting x2 days - Oaks
xi) Lantana Lash - WSMTB / BMORC / NPWS - Yellowmundee

I am of the view that you have to "give to get", however, I have heard many of our members and friends telling us that we seem to be giving more then getting. I hope now that we have secured Knapsack for both trail riders and downhill riders, potentially securing more hands on training from NPWS that all this "give" is finally leading to some "getting"

My aims are not to nag you into contributing more, I'll leave this to your best judgement. But, we are leading into a high volunteer period, where we will need numbers in excess of +30 and more people at multiple events. We have planted the seeds for the training of trail bosses, so that we can reduce the staff requirement, whilst still having trained volunteers supervising and further training newer or part time volunteers. You can see that this is a key to managing financial impact to the relevant land manager whilst also increasing independence for volunteers to maintain trails as required.

So ... heres to you volunteers ... lets get stuck in so we can ride more and work less. Hope to see increasing numbers at our next events.

Al