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WOHVA Grant Support Needed
WOHVA needs your letters NOW to support their two-track trail maintenance grant requests. Your Washington Off Highway Vehicle Alliance is once again requesting grant funds to support two-track trail maintenance in Washington State. We need to continue the great work begun in 2018 with our first grant and building on our current grants in 2020.
This is our third grant cycle and the first where we’re now not partnering with the Northwest Motorcycle Association for support letters. While we may still share some services and efficiencies, both organizations have matured and continue to support each other but have removed some complexity with our individual approaches.
Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) trails on public land here in WA State are just not receiving enough maintenance. ATV, SxS and 4WD trail use this past year continues to increase, stressing our public resources. With Federal and State budget challenges, trail maintenance is not at the top of their list. The backlog of trail maintenance is growing and additional resources are needed.
WOHVA and the NMA created heavy maintenance crews to address backlogged maintenance on single and two-track USFS and DNR trails statewide. They’re working with land managers to provide an HMC mini-excavator team as well as the necessary support funding. They’ve added support in 2020 grants for volunteer work projects (food, equipment, and other more).
Now that great work needs YOUR support letters to gain approval in this next grant cycle. These are our grant requests for the 2022 grant cycle:
WOHVA 2022 Grant Requests
NOVA 22-2200 WOHVA 2 Track Heavy Maint. Crew
NOVA 22-2201 WOHVA 2 Track Maint. Volunteer Support
These grants provide equipment and logistics to help our public land managers harness the energy of user-based funding (NOVA) and users themselves providing support for volunteer work projects. It’s been evident this past year that there’s a LOT of volunteer energy available from our members and user groups.
If this sounds like something you can support, please help us BEFORE OCT. 29th by:
1) EMAIL - Send an email expressing your personal, organization’s, club’s or OHV-related business support for our two NOVA grant applications to
[email protected]. Include the grant numbers and why you support them.
2) SHARE - Share this request for support letters with your other OHV-positive affiliations.
3) HELP WANTED - Spread the word that we have PAID positions open now for HMC Equipment Operators, Swampers and Volunteer Work Party leaders. These are funded by YOUR funds in both the current and 2022 proposed grants! Contact
[email protected].
Thank you, Bryan Peterson, WOHVA President