With a New Year come New Changes
With a new year come new challenges and changes. IMBA Canada is certainly no different and the following post outlines some of the things can have occurred as of late as well as highlighting a few upcoming projects.
Changing of the Guard
Mark Schmidt has left his post as executive director of IMBA Canada as of January 1st and begun a new career with Parks Canada. With Schmidt’s departure IMBA Canada Lora Woolner, who together with Schmidt started the IMBA Canada office in 2004, has taken the reigns as executive director. Woolner and Schmidt have been involved with IMBA since 2002, when they were hired on to a three year stint with IMBA’s Trail Care Crew program in the US.
Continued work with National Parks
2009 saw IMBA Canada run workshops for the staff of three National Parks across the country, as well as two separate trail assessments. 2010 is shaping up to provide an equally prominent presence in its role of promoting sustainable trail construction within our nation’s protected wilderness. Stay tuned for more information!
New Web Content
A lot of things are in transition with IMBA’s current web format and expect to see some big changes across the board in the next month or so. In addition to these format changes, IMBA Canada is looking to expand its national blog with not only updates that summarize our projects and events but also cover current issues. It is our hope that these articles will help to trigger positive, constructive dialog that transcends provincial boundaries thereby furthering our understanding of membership concerns while exposing the membership to subjects we feel are relevant to improving the sport of mountain biking here in Canada.