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In article <thumper.53.000A819F@netcom.com> thumper@netcom.com (Thumper!) writes:
>(Eric Mankin) writes:

#[...What do you consider East Mojave?]
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##Draw a 25 mile circle around Kelso. What do you consider the East Mojave?
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#There's a bit more to the East Mojave than that, I think.

There's an enormous amount more: the question was what I thought of
when I thought of the East Mojave: that's the area I'm most familiar with.

#(using very rough figures that understate the case here)
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#S.21 deals with 6.6 million acres.
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#100 acres = 1 square mile

No, it does not. 100 *hectares* = 1 square *kilometer.*
1 square mile = 640 acres.

#ergo, 6.6 million acres = 660,000 square miles.

Um, your arithmetic is *really* bad. Even by your erroneous conversion
factor, you'd get 66,000 square miles. (The area of the state of Alaska
is 591,000 square miles.)

The actual figure, using the correct conversion is:

   6.6 million acres = 10,300 square miles.

#a 50 mile by 50 mile square (which would MORE than encompass your 25 mile 
#radius) encloses 
#                           2500 miles.

The area of a circle with a radius of 25 miles is not rocket science.
25 squared is 625 X pi (3.14) = 
                      
                      about 2000 square miles.

#That would mean there's just a BIT of overkill here...along the lines of the 
#small number of:
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#                         657,500 square miles

 Actually, about 8,300 square miles, and I really don't think "overkill" is
 an appropriate word to use to describe creating a park.           
              
#This means that the area you describe is 
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#                     Four tenths (.4) of ONE PERCENT of the land involved in 
#                     S.21

It's about 20 percent, about the same proportion as  say, the heavily used
visitor areas of Yosemite and the  backwoods parts of the park.

I hope you handle the arithmetic in your checkbook better than you handled
the arithmetic here.
                     Eric Mankin