Post by christopherl1234 on Mar 26, 2015 16:20:16 GMT -5
The BLM in now showing better maps or easier to find on their web site Vs the e-mail I titled on LA Rocks "Big Brother wants to know??) on 05/09/2014
Go to the URL below www.amlands.org/6652/362434.html
and you will find Supplemental Maps
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/cdd/west_mojave__wemo/wemo_maps.html
On just one I click, Afton Canyon Subregion (You can enlarge the map-wilderness study area) I see that AC9606 and AC9616 will be blocked if the area is made into a wilderness area. I do know that 100's of you in the past have collected in the area from angle wing agate, tube agate, jaspers, saginite and fluorite and many other great rocks. Please!!! Let the BLM know all the areas/roads you do not want closed. This Rockaholic thanks you
Input from Rockhounds is needed NOW.
Here are two things you can do:
1.) Attend any of the four BLM meetings scheduled in the next month -- Tue, Mar 31 in Ridgecrest, Thu, Apr 2, in Victorville, Thu, Apr 7, in Lone Pine, and Wed, Apr 15, in Yucca Valley;
2.) Write a comment letter (email to: cawemopa@blm.gov).
Tell the BLM which roads and camping and staging areas need to stay open. To be effective, comments should list specific place names, roads or geographic markers. Cogent comments that stick to facts and cite specifics will be more productive for advocating rockhounding interests than general remarks about keeping the whole desert open or criticizing the values of other groups.
BLM has to weigh competing interests, so it can only help to stress that permitting collecting and the way responsible rockhounds go about it is consistent with/not contrary to the ethical standards for preserving the natural environment.
West Mojave (WEMO) Draft Plan Released
WEMO Public Meetings
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released the Draft Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan and Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the West Mojave Route Network Project, providing guidance and management direction for over three million acres of public lands in San Bernardino, Inyo, Kern, Riverside and Los Angeles counties.
If you Rockhound or just recreate in the Mojave Desert please visit the ALAA WEMO Page at:
www.amlands.org/6652/362434.html
Please become familiar with the plan and the restrictions for access and try to attend one of the up coming meetings to make the voice of the Rockhound be heard!
Tues., March 31: Kerr-McGee Center, Pinnacles Room, 100 W California Ave, Ridgecrest Calif.
Thurs., April 2: Hilton Garden Inn, 12603 Mariposa Rd, Victorville, Calif.
Tues., April 7: Lone Pine Community Center, Stratham Hall, 138 Jackson St, Lone Pine, Calif.
Wed., April 15: Yucca Valley Community Center Complex, Yucca Room, 57090 Twentynine Palms Highway, Yucca, Calif.
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Go to the URL below www.amlands.org/6652/362434.html
and you will find Supplemental Maps
www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/cdd/west_mojave__wemo/wemo_maps.html
On just one I click, Afton Canyon Subregion (You can enlarge the map-wilderness study area) I see that AC9606 and AC9616 will be blocked if the area is made into a wilderness area. I do know that 100's of you in the past have collected in the area from angle wing agate, tube agate, jaspers, saginite and fluorite and many other great rocks. Please!!! Let the BLM know all the areas/roads you do not want closed. This Rockaholic thanks you
Input from Rockhounds is needed NOW.
Here are two things you can do:
1.) Attend any of the four BLM meetings scheduled in the next month -- Tue, Mar 31 in Ridgecrest, Thu, Apr 2, in Victorville, Thu, Apr 7, in Lone Pine, and Wed, Apr 15, in Yucca Valley;
2.) Write a comment letter (email to: cawemopa@blm.gov).
Tell the BLM which roads and camping and staging areas need to stay open. To be effective, comments should list specific place names, roads or geographic markers. Cogent comments that stick to facts and cite specifics will be more productive for advocating rockhounding interests than general remarks about keeping the whole desert open or criticizing the values of other groups.
BLM has to weigh competing interests, so it can only help to stress that permitting collecting and the way responsible rockhounds go about it is consistent with/not contrary to the ethical standards for preserving the natural environment.
West Mojave (WEMO) Draft Plan Released
WEMO Public Meetings
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released the Draft Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan and Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the West Mojave Route Network Project, providing guidance and management direction for over three million acres of public lands in San Bernardino, Inyo, Kern, Riverside and Los Angeles counties.
If you Rockhound or just recreate in the Mojave Desert please visit the ALAA WEMO Page at:
www.amlands.org/6652/362434.html
Please become familiar with the plan and the restrictions for access and try to attend one of the up coming meetings to make the voice of the Rockhound be heard!
Tues., March 31: Kerr-McGee Center, Pinnacles Room, 100 W California Ave, Ridgecrest Calif.
Thurs., April 2: Hilton Garden Inn, 12603 Mariposa Rd, Victorville, Calif.
Tues., April 7: Lone Pine Community Center, Stratham Hall, 138 Jackson St, Lone Pine, Calif.
Wed., April 15: Yucca Valley Community Center Complex, Yucca Room, 57090 Twentynine Palms Highway, Yucca, Calif.
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