trail
savers...fi ghting the good fi ght
Terri Folks, Associate Editor of Trail Blazer, from Edmond, Oklahoma, works tirelessly to help save our trails.
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trailsaver@trailblazermagazine.us with information and photos, and you too could receive national recognition as a Trail Saver!
El Dorado Equestrian Trails Foundation Dedicated to Improving California Trails T e El Dorado Equestrian Trails Foundation (EDETF) was founded
in 1987 to encourage identification and dedication of equestrian and hiking trails on the Georgetown Divide in El Dorado County, California. With the cooperation of the US Forest Service, the Dru Barner Foundation and the Wendell Robie Foundation, EDETF has identifi ed and marked many of the old trails and helped build new ones in El Dorado County. EDETF has created and improved many staging areas to improve
trails access. T e biggest accomplishment was the establishment, in cooperation with the Wendell Robie Foundation and the Dru Barner Foundation, of the Dru Barner Equestrian Campground, from which many endurance and other rides are staged. Dru Barner is now managed by the USFS, but EDETF continues to fund many of the improvements including new corrals, picnic tables and toilets. It is one of the nicest equestrian camping areas in the west, with access to hundreds of miles
of trails. EDETF holds an annual Fun(d) Ride at Dru Barner each Me- morial Day weekend as their primary fund raiser of the year. Other rides still held at Dru Barner include the Gold Country Endurance Ride, the Georgetown North American Trail Ride Conference (NATRC) ride (June 22-23, 2013) and EDETF’s annual Poker Ride in October. Other staging areas that EDETF developed include Donaldson,
Meadowbrook, Balderston Corral and Cronin Ranch. T ey are cur- rently working with the American River Conservancy toward a stag- ing area at Salmon Falls. EDETF has also created and re-established many trails over the years and continues to seek ways to link trails by encouraging private property owners to grant easements. EDETF also holds trail workdays as needed, usually in the spring to help clean winter deadfall and cut back encroaching foliage. T ey also participate in trail workdays held by the Georgetown Ranger District of the USFS. For more information about EDETF, visit
edetf.net
A marker at the El Dorado Forest explains how the trails were created and are maintained by the El Dorado Equestrian Trails Foundation.
Trail riders check in at the EDETF poker ride held each October.
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Members of the El Dorado Equestrian Trails Foundation participate in a pok- er ride fundraiser.
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