^That’s the trail building crews choice whether they document and give out location details.
As for respecting the land, does every MTBer appreciate the fact that every time they ride, they’re doing damage to any trails they ride? Leaving litter, eroding, avoiding puddle/mud/rocks, making tracks wider. Tyres shift leaf litter, kill roots and plants, the list goes on and on. By that mindset, no-one should MTB, we should all stick to the roads.
Who says where the line is drawn between recreational use of the land and using the land in an inappropriate manner?
Then the negative people will say the land owner, which is correct. So for every trail everyone uses, is there permission to use those trails in the manner the trails get used in reality? I doubt there is the permission.
Also, without doing things like this, people building things to ride, the sport would be stuck in the early 90s in terms of riding levels.
Anyone who disagrees with things like this, have never built anything in their lives and don’t know what it all means.
These debates are always like hitting your head against a brick wall. The people that disagree with it, will not and don’t want to budge for some reason i really cannot fathom.