West Mojave Plan ripoff meetings!

[scar tissue]

"It's all I can stands, and I can't stand no more." from Popeye

Attached is a meeting list regarding the proposed usage fees for our deserts. If you haven't seen the atricles, they are planning to charge day use fee to use our natural lands. (like the illegal forest adventure pass rip off program.)

Basically the government is diverting funds from the green sticker programs for other non related purposes, and now the BLM is crying about revenue shortfalls. Instead of targeting the politicians who are stealing our money, it is easier for them to create new fees for us to pay. :think: :scream: :moon:

The meetings are to teach you about, and how to comment on the West Mojave Plan. This is an important issue about protecting our right to ride on public lands and keeping them open. I recommend everyone attend, not just D-37 racers. I am planning on attending the Aug. 20 meeting at Brea High School. Several member of our enduro club will also be there.


We can sit, bitch and do nothing or we can stand and fight. It's really our choice.

I can't attach a PDF so here's the dates and location.

8-20 Brea High School 7:30- 10:30 on Wildcat Way

8-21 Victorville - Green Tree Inn 14173 Green tree way 7:30
-10:30

8-27 Long Beach VFW post 1746, 1032 South Street. 7:30- 10:30

8-28 Lancaster Antelope Valley, 44055 Sierra Hwy 7:30 10:30

8-30 J's Maintenance 3550 Foothill Blvd. 9AM -12

 

[ktmboy]

Thanks for tipping us off to the meeting dates/times!

 

[Ol'89r]

Originally posted by scar tissue

We can sit, bitch and do nothing or we can stand and fight. It's really our choice.
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Very well said Scar. :thumb:

It's amazing how many ways they can come up with to charge us for the same thing. Then, use the money against us. :(

Thanks for the heads up Tim.

 

[CPT Jack]

Eel, thumbs,... which one are we going to? No whining!

 

[thumbs]

Brea on the 20th

 

[the Eel]

The 20th might work for me ... I'll get back to you tomorrow on it.

Thanks for the heads up Scar.

 

[2strok4fun]

I am going to try and make the 20th, here is a map
Map to Brea Linda HS

Chris

 

[JPIVEY]

The West Mojave Plan and the BLM fees are two different things


The WMP;

Recommends a route network that includes 2,265 miles of open routes within a “redesign area”, 159 miles within the Ord Pilot region, 406 miles within ACECs for which route networks were designated after 1980 and 2,268 miles of remaining 1985-87 designations, or 5,098 miles overall, a total that includes single-track motorcycle routes. This compares to 4,260 miles currently designated open, although that network does not include all single-track routes (many of which were not surveyed in 1985-7) and provided little or no designations for the Middle Knob, Amboy and Ord sub regions. Proposed mileage of non-motorcycle routes in higher density tortoise population areas would be 384, a decrease from the 439 miles currently open. The 406 miles within the
ACECs be a decrease from the current 427.

The BLM fees stems from this and similar decisions:

The California Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Commission last week rejected the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) request for $1.1 million to cover operating costs of the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area (ISDRA) in Southern California. The BLM proposal, an arrangement through which the federal government would have supplied the land and recreation opportunities and the state would assist in funding through a grant program, was rejected after a 4-3 vote by the OHMVR Commission.

The OHMVR Commission, a 7 person state commission known to be dominated by four active environmentalists, has made a series of decisions regarding public lands in the past year that have demonstrated the uncompromising attitude of its environmentalist branch. Such decisions, which also included a rejection last year of a U.S. Forest Service grant request for snowmobile trail maintenance, have jeopardized the recreational opportunities of millions of California residents. In a statement released by BLM this week, a spokesperson announced that it would be forced to consider raising fees or reducing services in order to continue managing the ISDRA, an area that draws some 3 million visitors annually.


however, I am trying to go to Brea tomorrow night

 

[thumbs]

Depending on what time I get out of my office i might not be able to make it to Brea by 7:30.

Is anyone still plan on going?

 

[scar tissue]

yes I'll be there

 

[2strok4fun]

I probably wont be home from work until 7 or 7:30, but I am still going to try and make it.

 

[the Eel]

i'm out ... other obligations

 

[2strok4fun]

Who went? and any Info?

I was unable to make it, Dinner with the owner, I kinda had to be there.

 

[scar tissue]

89er, Capt jack, and myself attended. They've encouraged us to write our comments down and send them in. They do not want nor will they count form letters, so we have to create our own. I'm in the process of writing mine and will post in here for all to cut and paste and customize. I hope to have it finished by Monday.

 

[JPIVEY]

I didn't make , when I was leaving the sky opened , my truck still in the shop and my jeep only has a bikini top, so I didn't get to far.

Keep an eye on the D37 board, Robert is working on instructions and a guide to help write our letters.