{"id":106165,"date":"2015-05-12T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=106165"},"modified":"2015-05-12T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:43:49","slug":"mountain-bike-ban-in-wilderness-areas-debate-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=106165","title":{"rendered":"Mountain bike ban in wilderness areas debate heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The protection of wilderness areas, and their intersection with public lands has made headlines in recent months. Recently, Bike discovered a gargantuan wrongdoing levied against mountain biking on those same hiking trails.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The debate<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bike reports, \u201cToday, there are 762 wilderness areas in 44 states comprising nearly 110 million acres. Alaska, California, Arizona, Idaho, and Washington are home to the biggest chunks of wilderness. Nearly 12 million people visit Wilderness areas each year \u2014 you just can\u2019t do so on a mountain bike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The land grab happened\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/bike\/mountain-bike-ban-in-wilderness-areas-debate-heats-up\/#qu155LBRf7REzaXK.97\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The protection of wilderness areas, and their intersection with public lands has made headlines in recent months. Recently, Bike discovered a gargantuan wrongdoing levied against mountain biking on those same hiking trails. The debate Bike reports, \u201cToday, there are 762 wilderness areas in 44 states comprising nearly 110 million acres. Alaska, California, Arizona, Idaho, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106166,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106165\/revisions\/106166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}