IN THIS ISSUE:

• NWTRA Leadership

• March Club Meeting

• Trail Crew

• NOHVCC

• Another Story

• 2019 Event Calendar

NWTRA LEADERSHIP FOR 2019

At our first meeting of 2019 on February 20th, Jay Britain stepped up to serve as NWTRA Vice-

President in 2019. Jim Reynolds moved into the President role as per the club bylaws. Chuck

Overstreet volunteered for another year as Treasurer. Due to his job, Gary Humphreys is not

always availible for all club meetings so Makayla and Gary hold the role as secretary jointly, with

only one vote on items between the both of them. Gary and Makayla volunteered as Co-

Secretary again for 2019. Jay Britain is a long time member of NWTRA, this is his first time in

elected office. He has ridden all types of OHV’s and has contributed many hours of volunteer

time to the complex.

MARCH CLUB MEETING:

SPECIAL GUEST;

UMATILLA COUNTY

SEARCH AND RESCUE

Mark your calendars as NWTRA will be hosting Adam Gregory of Umatilla County

Search and Rescue @ our March Club Meeting on March 20th, 6pm, The

Saddle in Pendleton. Adam will be availible to let us know what all they do and

to answer any questions you may have. It is better to know now than be in the

dark when you need them.

“The mission of the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Unit is to

perform an invaluable service to the community by providing a professional, well-

trained, organized, mostly volunteer search and rescue team that is devoted to

helping lost and missing persons, overdue hunters, stranded motorist, and

others. They also provide aid in medical emergencies and perform many other

types of search and rescue missions. SAR team members also assist our UCSO

deputies and other law enforcement agencies at major crime scenes and are

available to assist search and rescue teams in other jurisdictions, both regionally

and throughout Oregon and Washington, whenever they are needed.”

CLUB OFFICERS

PRESIDENT:

JIM REYNOLDS

VICE PRESIDENT:

JAY BRITAIN

TREASURER:

CHUCK OVERSTREET

CO-SECRETARY:

GARY & MAKAYLA

HUMPHREYS

CLUB MEETINGS:

3rd Wednesday of the

Month, The Saddle,

Pendleton 6pm

TRAIL CREW

What is the NWTRA Trail Crew: One of the major functions of NWTRA is to construct

and maintain trails in the Winom-Frazier and Desolation OHV Complexes to provide

for an all day ride. This is also the main reason NWTRA was created in the first

place in 1985. As a member you are encouraged to support this mission with free

camping passes after 16hours of family trail maintenance time. Recording this time

at nwtra.com/Trail Maintenance continues to be critical in generating the

Oregon Parks and Recreation Grant Funding for the materials and heavy equipment

use we need to maintain these trails. NWTRA considers any one of our members

that contributes hours a part of our Trail Crew.

One of the key parts of Trail Maintenance is the spring trail opening process. This is when all of us riding, are packing trail

cleaning equipment to remove the hazards caused by the fall and winter, to provide a safe and fun ride later in the year.

NWTRA’s goal has been to have the majority of the complex trails OPEN by Memorial Day weekend. Our success at this

task is driven by a number of factors, not the least of which is weather.

Any one utilizing the trails has come upon some poorly “Opened” trails. These trails are the ones that barely have enough

width to allow for a machine to get through, winter leaners left to take your head off, or foot breaking stubs of wood

hanging just at foot peg height.

Why does this happen? Part may be a lack of knowledge, or those that “worked it” did not have the right equipment, but

some are due to riders wanting to increase the challenge for the next guy. This last attitude is how we get people hurt and

could decrease our access in the long run and is NOT NWTRA’s attitude.

Working with the Forest Service over a decade ago, NWTRA members formalized a set of general specifications for trail

clearing. These were developed utilizing nation wide standards and NWTRA’s strong desire to create a safe and fun

experience. Winom-Frazier has two major trail classes, Class I (ATV) and Class III (Motorcycle). Each is defined by its

vehicle use which dictates the actual trail tread width. Even though a motorcycle tire is as narrow as 6 inches, the tread of

a single track trail can be 12 to up to 24 inches wide. With federal restrictions Class I trails require machines 50inches or

less, that tread may be as much as 60inches. Both tread widths allow for a users choice in “line” over obstacles or around

corners. So for those of us clearing the trails, cutting a down spring log just barely enough to get our tire through is

creating a hazard, which in the “best case” will make more work for someone to come back and fix what could have been

done right the first time.

How are trails done right? At nwtra.com/Trail Maintenance those general specifications are located. The main idea is to

cut a downed log at least 24 inches on both sides of the trail tread, to keep hangers and branches clear 8 feet above the

tread (remember, you stand up on a motorcycle!), and to attempt to remove hazards that are hiding in tall grass or brush

that could present a hazard to feet or tires, at least 12 inches from each side of the tread.

Follow these guidelines when you do your part. There is so much that doesn’t meet this now, if we do what we can as we

move forward, we all will at least not make it worse. NWTRA is constantly working with the Forest Service maintenance

crews to improve areas, sometimes cutting way back in our 5 year mentality. NWTRA has also taken on the one

trail focus mentality, like was done on Short Cable in 2018, to correct these larger issues. More to come.

NOHVCC

In 2017, NWTRA members attended the NOHVCC “Great Trails”

training in LaGrande (NWTRA May 2017 Newsletter). This Oregon

State parks and Forest Service sponsored event was a hands on and classroom training better trail maintenance

practices, trail development and trails system management. This training gathered together a number of individuals that

really effect our riding area, such as members from Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman National forest. NWTRA members

that attended this training really felt that it went a long ways on putting these land managers on the same page as

NWTRA.

But what is NOHVCC?

“The National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council (NOHVCC) is a nonprofit public benefit organization, recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. Primarily funded by the Motorcycle Industry Council, Specialty Vehicle Institute of America and the Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association, NOHVCC exists to create a positive future for OHV Recreation.

Mission NOHVCC, as a national body of OHV recreation enthusiasts, develops and provides a wide spectrum of programs, materials and information, or “tools”, to individuals, clubs, associations and agencies to further a positive future for responsible OHV recreation.

Mission Objectives

• Help establish new OHV clubs and state associations where they don’t already exist;

• Strengthen existing clubs and state associations by providing information, training and services to help them be more effective;

• Improve and promote responsible OHV recreation management and resource protection by working in partnership with private and public land managers and recreation planners;

• Provide and promote best management practices for OHV recreation planning, development and management to policy makers;

• Promote a positive OHV recreation image to all publics;

• Build a better understanding of responsible OHV recreation among all publics;

• Build recognition and acceptance that OHV recreation is a positive activity and promotes a responsible life style;

• Provide broad-based, ongoing educational opportunities for OHV recreationists, recreation planners and decision-makers; Provide and promote educational, safety, ethics, environmental and character-building programs for all OHV recreationists including youth; and

• Emphasize the benefits of responsible recreation behavior and raise awareness of the impacts from irresponsible recreation activity.

One thing to note: Yes NOHVCC is “Primarily Funded” by industry, but not totally

funded, as they do accept donations from individual and user groups.

In addition, NOHVCC is conducting monthly webinar’s to further their education mission.

Their first was in January and was on who they are. Key to this was learning that they

provide assistance in developing trail system management, which is one of the

priorities expressed by the Forest Service for our Winom-Frazier OHV Complex.

NWTRA will be outreaching to see if this would be possible to help all of us prioritize

our projects and focus on getting these done.

OREGON OHV PERMIT QR CODE Need to get an OHV Permit

to ride on Public Lands?

Just scan the QR Code be-

low, and it will take you to https://store.oregonstateparks.org/

to allow for purchase and

electronic receipt of your

OHV Permit.

Credit Card and OHV Vin# required

NO MEETING IN JANUARY

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Morrow/Grant OHV Park

CLUB STICKERS

In 2013, Dave @ DG Gifts helped NWTRA clean up the digital version of our long standing logo. This had been used for

many years, but was dated due to the type of machines on it AND its difficulty to read/recognize at a distance. To help

with this, Gary produced the initial logo, which has many color variations, seen above in red, white and blue. There is also

a logo without “North West Trail Riders Association” spelled out that is currently in use on all event and club T-shirts on the

front. To better reflect the vehicles in use by club members, the “2018” logo was created.

For 2019, NWTRA members at the February meeting discussed the purchase of a new batch of stickers to show some pride

in our club. Basics established would be for the sticker to be waterproof and UV stable. Other than that, there are many

options, not the least is picking out what logo to put on it.

NWTRA leadership is formally reaching out to any and all members to let us know what you would like. It is not limited to

just these three logos either. Plus we would like to know ideas on size or shape, or even if you think it is a good use of our

funds. Let us know @ contact@nwtra.com OR come to a Club Meeting , like March 20th.