On 5/9/2012 5:05 PM, Allen H Farrington wrote:Allen, first off, thanks to you (and the rest of the Board) for all the great effort and work that you put forth on behalf of ROC. The following rant is in no way directed at anyone in ROC, or associated with ROC, I just have to get this off my chest...
In looking at your attached maps, it appears that three of the four 'squares' that make up Lucerne Dry Lake have been purchased by private parties. WTF??? This area has been held by BLM, in trust for the public, for decades, and has been used for recreational purposes for as long as I can remember. When, and how, did the BLM get it in their heads that they could/should sell these lands to private parties? When/where were any hearings held for interested public members to comment about how keeping these lands public serves a PUBLIC benefit?
I've been pissing/moaning for years about how the decline of the educational system has been degrading our culture. I've been equally pissing/moaning about how governmental regulation has been doing the same. But now, on top of this, we see this type of handling of public lands?
I'm so made I could... I could... well, I was going to say "spit," which is what my grandmother would have said, but somehow it just doesn't seem harsh enough...
David Erbas-White
For everyone interested, here is the actual plot of where the traditional ROC range head is. We will issue more later but rest assured that we're trying hard to minimize the change to the membership. This change was prompted to keep most of our recovery area on the BLM "square" of land (#26) thus limiting our incursions into privately held land. We're trying to minimize our incursions on the private land in order to prevent the need for insurance certificates, permission, etc… (per NFPA& CA law, not BLM rules) for launching operations. Based on what we're planning, other than getting to the range head, there should be no changes to our camping or OHV policies.
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