Heinrich fights to build Zuni Mountain bike trail system

During a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing today on the U.S. Forest Service's fiscal year 2017 budget request, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich urged the U.S. Forest Service to complete its Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Zuni Mountain Trail Project in the Mt. Taylor Ranger District in order to build out a mountain bike trail system in the Cibola National Forest. Senator Heinrich stressed that the Zuni Mountain Trails Partnership has worked with the local community for years to design a mountain bike trail system and underscored that outdoor recreation is increasingly driving economic development in western New Mexico. Senator Heinrich pressed Chief Tidwell to complete the environmental assessment by the spring. March 8, 2016.