Regarding the Independence Trail now under the Bear-Yuba Land Trust: Intentional or not, there was no mention of Linda Chaplin who dedicated two decades of her life to advocating for the trail and is the former director of Sequoya Challenge. She co-founded the organization with John Olmsted then helped his son's efforts to keep South Yuba River South Park open. It would have been shockingly classy and professional for someone to mention her name, but truth tends to get subsumed by petty politics here. Linda was adamantly opposed to brush clearing the trail and land, knowing it could ruin one …