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Posts Tagged ‘ Recreation ’

Johnson Valley: Inadequate military boundary signs near live fire take advantage of OHV families

February 8, 2011
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Johnson Valley: Inadequate military boundary signs near live fire take advantage of OHV families

“Signage is not too much to ask for especially when live fire activities are planned for the area.” Last Friday I sat as an observer in federal court and watched 38 persons plead guilty to trespassing on government property even though there was inadequate signage to assist in identifying the boundary of said restricted land. To justify the violations issued the sitting magistrate compared our judicial system to that of other countries and our citizens as farm animals who strayed across restricted boundaries to forage for a meal. These...

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Marine Base Trespass = Justice at Black Rock

February 7, 2011
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Marine Base Trespass = Justice at Black Rock

Was it a “Bad day at Black Rock”? Well’ that depends on who you are. For me, it was enlightening! I have lived just down the road from Black Rock Canyon (AKA Yogi Bear Park) for some thirty years and although I occasionally take visiting relatives up there I had no idea the little visitor’s center served as a part time Court House where a traveling Magistrate arraigns those folks who manage to find themselves crosswise with the law, on any of the regions federal lands. A hundred or...

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Live Fire in the West

February 3, 2011
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Live Fire in the West

MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (Feb. 3, 2011) - Beginning early next week aboard the installation, the Combat Center is scheduled to conduct an advanced stage of Enhanced Mojave Viper, the Marine Corps’ premier live-fire combined arms pre-deployment training exercise. The training, taking place along the installation’s western boundary, will integrate small and medium arms and heavy weapons live fire from infantry, artillery, mortars, tanks and attack aviation assets. During this time period, higher noise levels could be experienced due to the increased activity associated...

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Ruling, What Does It Mean

February 2, 2011
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Court Ruling Requires Greater Protection Against OHV Abuse in California Desert In follow-up to a ruling on off-highway vehicle routes in the California desert, federal judge imposes deadline for new plan and imposes protective measures   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 31, 2011 – Ten environmental organizations secured a favorable ruling in a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages 25 million acres of public land in southern California known as the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA).   The January 29,...

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It Lives

February 1, 2011
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It Lives

Twentynine Palms, Ca– The anti-outdoor recreation, off road hating, Twentynine Palms General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC) will not die. The hugely unbalanced GPAC, stacked with environmentalists, cronies and friends of Jay Corbin has been given yet another lease on life. Unable or unwilling to complete the task given to it, the GPAC has taken on a life of its own. Here is a warning to the City of Twentynine Palms and the Council can take this to the Bank if the Off Road Community is cut out of the...

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Washington’s obsession with land preservation threatens landowners, ranchers

January 23, 2011
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Washington’s obsession with land preservation threatens landowners, ranchers

From the pages of  The Billings Gazette this editorial : By RON POERTNER Just before Christmas with Congress in recess and the public on holiday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar issued Secretarial Order 3310 that puts the creation of de facto wilderness areas back in the Bureau of Land Management’s preservation tool kit. Environmentalists love it; landowners and resource providers not so much. Salazar’s order enables the BLM to create wilderness-like areas without the consent of Congress. In the long run it will adversely impact resource development, recreation, travel and...

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It just keeps breaking our way!!

January 22, 2011
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It just keeps breaking our way!!

County in Utah wins title to R.S. 2477 roads | Christian Probasco | NewWest.Net By Christian Probasco A significant victory on road ownership for a southern Utah county could establish a precedent that could alter the way wilderness is designated in the West. The recognition of Kane County’s title to the historic “Skutumpah Road” in a district court case by Judge Clark Waddoups, and subsequent recognition of its title to four more routes, has given representatives of Kane County hope they may finally get a fair hearing on the...

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Wilderness Society takes one in the old Kazoo

January 18, 2011
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Federal Defendant Rule Tossed in OHV Case Courtesy of the Motorcycle Industry Council Monday, January 17, 2011 San Francisco, CA– With the Federal Defendant rule overturned, groups like the MIC and SVIA will have the opportunity to intervene in Federal Land use decisions. In a move sure to have far-reaching effects on the way federal lands are used in the future, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a long-standing rule that prevented non-federal interests, such as rider groups, from intervening in environmental disputes in the Western States....

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Friends of Giant Rock Election Results

January 17, 2011
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Friends of Giant Rock Election Results

Landers, Ca– Dan missed the meeting so it’s with pride that I will report, FOGR has hammered herself out a very impressive batch of new Officers. Our new President, Monrovia resident Chris Miller, is a long time Johnson Valley off-roader whose Father, Mother and older Brothers, put up a weekend cabin in Landers back in the 50s (a while before Chris’s arrival). Chris, his is wife and their 3 yr. old daughter share the adventures that visiting the homestead always brings. Nowadays the old shack is enjoyed by a...

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FOGR Changes the Guard!

January 9, 2011
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FOGR Changes the Guard!

Friends of Giant Rock Meeting January 15 11:00am at Landers Association on Reche Rd. Map to meeting location All board positions will be open for new officers. As in the past exiting officers will be on board as advisers to the new crew. As outgoing President I want to outline what I perceive to be current goals and objectives. Our original mission was to address ordinance 3973. It took 4 years but we succeeded in removing the ridiculous staging permit requirement. Other issues of the ordinance like trespass rules...

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