I thought I would pass this along:

Keeping Our Trails Twisty
We encourage everyone to respect the temporary fire closures in the
Piutes in order to give the vegetation time to grow back around the
trails. We all enjoy the forest trails because they are twisty, tight
and interesting. Often after a fire the trees and bushes which defined
the twisty trail are gone and it is easy to just go straight. The bushes
will grow back over the next few years, but if people shortcut and
straighten out the trail now, then the straightaway will become the new
trail, which will also channel the water down the trail, possibly
creating erosion ruts and requiring increased trail maintenance. We all
want to ride interesting forest trails.

As though that is not enough we have done the math and shortcutting the
trails can reduce the length of the trail up to 40%. We need to keep all
the trail mileage that we can so........
Please Help Keep Your Trails Twisty-Stay On The Trail