"Nearly two months ago, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed a secretarial order declaring that electronic bicycles “shall be allowed” in any area on federal land where regular bikes can ride. But even as top officials are pressing ahead to institute the policy, no one knows yet exactly what that means.
In an interview last week, Bureau of Land Management Director William Perry Pendley said his agency was still determining where people could ride e-bikes, which are an increasingly popular form of motorized bike. Historically, they have been barred from nonmotorized trails.
Pendley, who sat for an interview with The Post on Friday in Fort Collins, Colo. before participating in a panel on the future of public lands at the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference at Colorado State University, noted that e-bikes have gained favor among Americans like his neighbors in Evergreen, Colo. who ride them in the morning when they get doughnuts from a nearby store."
Juliet Eilperin reports for the Washinton Post October 16, 2019.
