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In article <37upbk$t7g@mizar.usc.edu> mankin@mizar.usc.edu (Eric Mankin) writes:

>I don't know what the legalities involved are, but the last time I
>was through there (actually, around the 166 area, around Cuyama,
>it looked like it already was a de facto ORV area.

>Just north of there's an unusual object lesson: the Carrizo Plain,
>which was a grassland teeming with game when the Spanish arrived.
>It was used for intensive cattle raising, and totally, incredibly
>trashed until even the ranching operations abandoned it. Now it's
>been taken over by the state, which is hoping it may recover
>in a few decades if it's left alone.

>I confess: I'm selfish: I don't like people using places and throwing
>them away.

You may well be right Eric.  Perhaps the desolate wasteland  I described 
as an ideal ORV area seemed ideally desolate because we have already gone in 
and ****ed it up with cattle, etc.  I didn't really think of that.

I am aware of the Soda Lake/Carrizo Plain area.  Rest assured that I don't 
support ORV's being anywhere close to those areas.

I'm not sure what the answer is but I think there must be some place that 
would be acceptable to both sides.  I would love to see the day when all 
people treat their environment with the respect it deserves.  I am, however, 
not holding my breath.  However unpopular this may be, I think that 
environmentalists need to choose their battles carefully.  If there is room 
for compromise on one issue then compromise may be the wise choice.  I feel 
that puts you in a better position to hold your ground on an issue where you 
feel there can be no compromise.  I don't consider this an appeasement of the 
"other side" but rather part of the democratic process.


James White
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