Protecting YOUR Access!
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My last ditch effort: in this fight before beginning the next.
2017 preservationist were in same position we face now. By not giving up and fighting harder they came out ahead over the last 4 years.
Dear President Trump,
By Executive Order please cap Wilderness to the current level.
The management of our public land is divided between Conservation for sustainable use of people and Preservation to protect it from people.
In the West it's gotten to where more public land is protected from people than managed for people.
Thank you for all you've done for Americans workers.
Trump 2024.
Respectfully,
Robert Adams
Thank you BlueRibbon Coalition for supporting exploration for helium in Labyrinth Canyon in Emery County. It is very much appreciated!
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I noted today that the BLM just posted the Draft EA for the Canyon Rims Travel Management Plan around Hatch Point. It is open for public comment until November 15.
https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/113775/510
Is BlueRibbon or any other local OHV advocacy groups aware of this yet? As someone who is not super familiar with that area, I would appreciate some tips on routes to focus on for comments.
Pro-Active Planning to Protect Public Access to Public Land:
I’ve lived in 3 places where I could ride my dirtbike out of my garage to surrounding trails up until I couldn’t anymore. The end begins with losing trails to development and land use restrictions that fragments trails. Then connecting fragmented trails by user made routes leads to conflicts that leads to a general prohibition of offroad riding.
Pahrump Nevada is my 4th home I moved to ride my dirtbike from home. I see signs of riding from home here coming to the same end for the same reasons as places I lived before. Nye County Code allows limited paved highway use by OHVs is a big advantage. But as the distance to surrounding public land increases we need designated routes to close the gaps. There are 2 remaining direct routes connecting the center of Pahrump to public land north of Roadrunner Road. One is State Route 160. OHV travel is prohibited on State Highways. The 2nd route is in the route proposed designated route. Designated routes won’t prohibit travel on existing roads and trails. They provide backbone routes connecting riding areas should fragmentation occur.
This proposal applies directly to Pahrump, Nevada. But offroaders in other communities face the same threat, especially growing communities on urban fringes. Some have done what Pahrump is doing now. We’re all wiser by sharing knowledge and are stronger by working together.
Interesting read
WV Delegate Evan Worrell and myself and Nikko Bowden with the WV jeep club are trying to show WV legislators and the bureaucrats of WV that Jeeps and 4WD enthusiasts have a voice and deserve access on on our 1.7 million acres of taxpayer owned land in WV. Next Saturday(Feb 1st 2020), please come support or at least share this post,
thanks-Mark Maynard
clipped from another post.. SO TRUE
Environmental groups are the real threat
| November 07, 2019
Editor,
A lot has been in the news lately about the Pacific Gas & Electric blackouts. They are very inconvenient, to say the least, but I find it hard to understand people who would try to harm the men and women on the line trying to fix the power lines in an emergency.
I find these workers much like the firemen. Out there risking their lives for us. People need to sit back and think. It is like blaming the farmer for not growing enough food when he was given no water to do it.
In the past 50 years I have seen toads, and fish and fairy shrimp become more important then people. I have seen a once pristine forest degenerate into dead snags now choked with brush where the trees once grew and burning like a raging inferno because logging was bad.
I have seen once beautiful mountain streams now jammed with dead logs and limbs until you can no longer even walk up them because it is “natural.” I have seen high mountain meadows washed away by these streams. The ones that are left are becoming choked with thistles because they are no longer grazed because cattle are now bad.
We are choking to death on environmental policies that say we cannot burn more than a “4X4 pile of brush, pine needles and downed limbs” on a snowy day on private property and then only if the Environmental Protections Agency says that we can because it pollutes the air. But, from July until November, we breath smoke from burning houses that is far more deadly than wood smoke.
Then, as if they want to add insult upon injury, these rabid environmentalists propose turning Hite’s Cove and the Devil’s Gulch area into a wilderness area? I guess they didn’t learn anything from the Ferguson Fire in 2018. We lost two veteran firefighters in these areas, one from trying to fall a burning snag and the other on a steep hillside.
So, can we blame PG&E when they have been forced to spend all their money, which should have been spent on fixing their outdated power lines, on so called “green” energy? A lot of my family was in forestry in the early 1990s and they saw it coming.
My grandfather was threatened with jail if he didn’t go home and shut up when the Harlow Fire started back in the summer of 1961. He warned them if they didn’t back fire it was going to get away from them. They said the state wouldn’t allow it because it burned too much timber.
Well, any of us who were here when that fire blew through know what happened. It kept jumping their lines until it became a raging inferno that burned two towns, multiple homes and killed two people.
It was said that God put it out when the wind changed on the doorstep of Oakhurst. The real culprits in this whole mess isn’t PG&E, it is uninformed voters. Next time you are tempted to vote for politicians supporting the “New Green Deal,” check your history on the last “New Green Deal.” If you voted for them, don’t blame PG&E for the mess. Blame yourself.
Mary Carpenter
Mariposa
Cal4Wheel NRC South Report (Oct 2019)
Fall in southern California signals the beginning to the desert off-road season. This time of year is also accompanied by Santa Anna winds and wildfires. Added to the offerings this year are strong winds, wildfires, and rolling blackouts throughout the state. As experienced that past couple of years, wildfires take a toll on human lives, homes, and trails. As the winds, fires and smoke subsides, help your friends and neighbors rebuild their lives. And, help the land managers rebuild your trails.
