People here will hate me for saying this but The Desert Tortoise really is endangered... there is a place that they fence off areas for the tortoise it's a reserve but you can still ride, it's still a huge giant place to ride... Living in the desert it's amazing how large it is really, I've never seen so much open space... From Needles to 29 Palms allong the 95 hwy is the the longest stretch of nothingness you can imagine as far as your eye can see in every direction... The marine corps base at 29 palms is bigger than the state of Rhode Island, and all around that base is more open land even larger than that base... It's mind boggling how much open space their is... Lots and lots of places to ride...
At the OHV areas so many riders and others are not respectful to their land use privlages (key word privalige not right) Just look at Ocotillo wells and all the trash our fellow riders leave... Why anyone would designate more riding areas if all riders do is leave garbage all over the place is beyond me... Don't be suprised when we loose riding places when people just abused them in the past... People just dumping couches and refriderators, and car tires, and whole cars, and shot gun shells, and old shoes, and used motor oil, and scrap metal, and coils of wire, and TV's it's really lame... I know allot of dumping is'nt dirt riders, but allot of it is, and either way we loose... When people who make laws become aware of this they close the riding places... Rideing places get closed sometimes cause people leave piles and piles of trash and garbage year after year... The green and red stickers fees are supposed to go to help put trash cans and bathrooms out at the OHV areas, but if riders don't police themselves we will all loose our privilage to ride... Maybe if riders packed out what ever they packed in things would be different but the fact is riders are there own worst enemy when it comes to land use... It's not so much the bikes do damage but it's people and there garbage, and abuse of these land use privaliges... If people just picked up their crap it would be allot better when envirnmentaslist come to do research and see piles of trash they're going to say to themselves, "well these dirt bikers are having an impact on the envirnment just look at all the trash" and they will get the land closed because they have the cash for litigation and we just want to party... If we don't care about the land why should they care about us? Dirt riders could be stewarts to the land like hunters are but sad fact is they are not... If Dirt riders did something positive like organised clean up efforts on a more regular basis, maybe get some good press instead of more bad press riding areas might not get closed so often...