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Laguna Canyon Foundation Urges Cyclists to Respect the Habitat

The South Coast Wilderness, 22,000 acres of open preserve close to Laguna Beach, is growing exponentially with visitors. Last year alone saw almost half a million hikers and mountain bikers. The Laguna Canyon Foundation, while admitting that much of the trails are less than gorgeous, has asked that all visitors respect the habitat. The foundation held a forum recently in which Hallie Jones, the foundation’s executive director, asked for more cooperation from hikers and cyclists that visit the area. Jones pleaded with mountain bikers to stop cutting their own trails through the preserve, saying that the habitat they love to ride in won’t be worth much if the illegal trail blazing continues. “You’ll have this once-beautiful canyon and now it’s crisscrossed with trails and doesn’t provide the same value as a habitat as it used to,” Jones warns mountain bikers before the official Laguna Canyon Foundation’s forum. The “outlaw” mentality…
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