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Opinion WIN A FlEE KAWASAKI MOTO eye E. Visit your participating Los Angeles-Orange County area Kawasaki dealer and pick up your free Captain K-EARTH decoder. Listen to K-EARTH Stereo 101 for clues on how to win. A decoder will help you to win. Desert Planning Commission Li st en to K-EA RT H St ereo 10 1 FM and visit y our loc al Kaw asak i dealer and pick up yo ur Free Decoder ! " Pub lic inp ut is very importa nt to us," claims Neil Pfulb , Direct or of th e Californ ia Desert Plan . " +$%&*!" yo u answe r. They don't listen to anybo dy b ut th e "d *%t *d preservati onist s!" Bu t th e p ro blem is not in th eir liste ning ; it 's in our ta lking. When Contest rules available in the lob by of KRT H·FM 590 1 V enic e Bl vd .. l os An geles. CA 90034 Kawasaki the good 11mE'\ roll leh I i ! If the world ended tomorrow would you you have a job? Send off for a free correspondence kit today leJ,Husqva~rna TtfO YAMAl-fA 24020 Narbonne A ve., Lom ita, CA . 907 17. Phone (213) 534-2311 30 ~~ Coast Moto Cycle ~ Mo t ocross - Desert 2334 New port B IIod ., Co st a Mesa . CA 926'27 714-645-8008 we ans wer t heir request fo r public input wit h a hostile "we don 't wan t you in o u r des ert, " al l we're saying is th at the users are h o stil e. The BLM al ready kn ows that. Bu t the y st ill read every letter . His tory is re pl e te wit h exam p les of extinc t species. And why? Beca us e t hey failed to adjust to a changi ng en vironment. The environment of the desert rider is changing. The BL\I has discovered the desert rider, and if the desert rider doesn 't begin to adapt, he will be co me just another m useum spe cimen. In an effort to learn abo u t this monster which threate ns o ur existen ce. I requested an interview with Bob Badaracco, Outdoor Recreational Plan ner (who, by t he way, holds a Ph .D in his fie ld) . Badarac co n o t o n ly agreed, he ro uned up his supervior, Resource Chief Merri ll De Spain, Desert Plan Director Neil Pfulb an d Rive rsid e District P R m an , Go rdon Flint. These rour gentlemen spe nt an entire morn ing explain ing wh at they a re do ing, why, and h ow they are go ing abou t it. The fo ur we re will ing, even eager, to le t Cycle Ne ws reade rs kn ow ho w lan d use classifications are ar rived a t , an d if I learned no t hing else, I lea rn ed th at if we lose o ur desert we wi ll have no one to blame b ut o urselves. Original ly , t he old Gene ral Lan d Office was charged wi t h ge tting p ublic lands bac k o n the tax ro lls, i.e. in t o private ha nds. Disposing of p ub lic lands, in o ther words. After World War II the Gene ral Land O ffice m erged with the Gra zin g Servi ce to fo rm the Bureau of Land Management. Early in t he 19 6 0 s Co ngress began to realize that American lan ds are indeed finite. " C o West Young Man " was the advice or Horace Greeley at a time wh en the West was un se ttled. It m a kes li ttl e sense o ver a ce nt ury later in an ove rcrowded West Co ast me gal opo lis. In 19 64 Congress passed a la w requiring "m ult iple use classification" of al l federal ly o wned lan d. Th e re sources o r th e Cali fo rn ia Desert had nev er bee n inven to ried except fo r disposal un de r the Sm all T racts Act. As t he BLM began t o clas sify th e de se rt lan ds in com p liance wit h the new law , they became aware of ex tensi ve recr eati onal uses. enc roach me nt of civi liza tion in to th e dese rt, and e ven foun d c c n f'licts within use r gro u ps , be tween bi g bik es a nd small bik es. "N ot t ure ," you say? The n write a le tte r, telling them how lo n g yo u 've been usin g th e d esert an d what it was re ally like. ~ la ke il a sa ne , se ns ib le le tter. Ad ult 10 adult. TI, e Califo rn ia Dese rt Plan tas k fo rce was se t up as a separate divis ion o f the Cal ifornia BD I. charged wi th inventoryin g the resources (including