{"id":138086,"date":"2017-12-13T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138086"},"modified":"2017-12-13T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T02:32:10","slug":"republican-bill-seeks-to-open-federal-wilderness-areas-to-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=138086","title":{"rendered":"Republican bill seeks to open federal wilderness areas to bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A House committee is expected to approve controversial legislation Wednesday that would open all federal wilderness, including almost 15 million acres in California, to mountain bikes.<\/p>\n<p>The bill by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove (Sacramento County) would amend the 1964 Wilderness Act, which specifically bans \u201cmechanical transport,\u201d to allow bicycles on 109 million acres of designated wilderness that constitute some of the most remote and undisturbed areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>McClintock, chairman of the House Natural Resources panel on public lands, said the bill would \u201chelp restore public access to public land.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/science\/article\/Republican-bill-seeks-to-open-federal-wilderness-12425703.php?cmpid=gsa-sfgate-result\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A House committee is expected to approve controversial legislation Wednesday that would open all federal wilderness, including almost 15 million acres in California, to mountain bikes. The bill by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove (Sacramento County) would amend the 1964 Wilderness Act, which specifically bans \u201cmechanical transport,\u201d to allow bicycles on 109 million [&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-138086","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\/138086","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=138086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138087,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138086\/revisions\/138087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}