<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-16le"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="./guest_about_JimHasenauer_files/filelist.xml"> <title>Jim Hasenauer</title> <style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p {margin-right:0in; mso-margin-top-alt:auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1027"/> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext="edit"> <o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1"/> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> <meta name=Template content="C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\html.dot"> </head> <body bgcolor=white background=../images/background.jpg lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Jim Hasenauer: SBMBC Guest Speaker July, 1999<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Jim Hasenauer is a Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Northridge who has represented responsible mountain biking to land managers, politicians, and environmental and trail recreation groups for more than 11 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span>Jim was one of the founders of the Concerned Off-Road Bicyclists Association (CORBA) in Los Angeles in 1987, served on the CORBA Steering Committee until '97 and is still an active CORBA volunteer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He has served on the IMBA Board of Directors since its founding in 1988 and served as IMBA's president from '91-'96.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>On sabbatical from CSUN in '96-'97, Jim worked full time as IMBA's Director of Education, working with IMBA local clubs on issue analysis and advocacy skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Hasenauer has served as the land access representative to the NORBA Board of Trustees since '91 and on the USA Cycling Board of Directors since '97.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>He represents mountain bicyclists on the California Roundtable on Recreation, Parks and Tourism and is politically active in the campaign to revitalize the Land and Water Conservation Fund that takes offshore oil revenue to buy public land. He is the co-author of a mountain bike guidebook to the Santa Monica (California) Mountains and the author of several articles in bicycling magazines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span>In '88, Hasenauer wrote CORBA's &quot;Position Paper #1: Philosophy of Shared Use Off Road Recreation.&quot; This document, which is now known as &quot;IMBA's Multiple Use Philosophy,&quot; has become a cornerstone of mountain bike trail advocacy around the globe. Hasenauer argued that shared trails are best for minimizing environmental impacts and user conflicts, dispersing users, socializing new users, containing management costs and most important, for building a unified trail community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The same year, he wrote CORBA's &quot;Position Paper #2: Organizing a Land Access Group&quot; that was also modified and widely distributed through IMBA. It urged riders to organize locally and work with land managers and other environmental and recreational groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>It emphasized the importance of publicity and public image in groups' establishing legitimacy and standing in their communities. In 1988, there were fewer than 10 U.S. mountain bike trail access clubs; in '98 there are more than 300. At the end of '88, IMBA had maybe 100 members. Midway through '98, the organization's individual membership topped 14,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span>Hasenauer was IMBA's president during its &quot;great leap forward&quot; when the Board undertook strategic planning and launched a fundraising campaign to hire an executive director and a professional staff. This professionalization helped establish IMBA as the recognized voice of responsible mountain biking and led to friendly Memoranda of Understanding with the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>In 1994, Hasenauer was part of the IMBA team in a mediation with the Sierra Club that led to the agreement &quot;that mountain biking is a legitimate form of recreation and transportation on trails, including singletrack, when and where it is practiced in an environmentally sound and socially responsible manner.&quot;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Also in '94, he was instrumental in overturning California State Parks' 1989 &quot;fireroads yes/singletracks no&quot; bicycle policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>As a result, trails throughout California, including the famous Will Rogers section of the Backbone Trail in Los Angeles, were re-opened to mountain bikes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span>An articulate public speaker, Hasenauer was IMBA's first spokesman. In 1989, he spoke at an Interbike industry breakfast and rang the land access alarm to an industry that was then enjoying meteoric mountain bike sales. He challenged the bicycle industry to get involved in advocacy issues and to support local riders' advocacy efforts. Since then, he has taken the message of responsible mountain biking to audiences across the nation and around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span>At the 1997 IMBA Global Summit in Les Sciernes, Switzerland, Hasenauer spoke of mountain biking's success in establishing our place in the backcountry community and the challenges we still face in securing riding opportunities. He urged &quot;every mountain bike rider to be environmentally aware, socially responsible and individually proactive....Every rider.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">    </span>Today Hasenauer is recognized as mountain biking's leading worldwide advocate--a gifted speaker, writer and strategist. As the discussion about appropriate trail use continues--and it surely will--trail cyclists everywhere are lucky to have Jim as the &quot;captain of the mountain bike debate team.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>