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purchased for an ORV facility, and the Mojave Sink have a past history of ORV abuu and should be redelignated from Class M to Class L. They a1Io maintain that "BLM is proposing to open a number of areas to unrestricted ORV use." "These class I open areas will be subject to devastation." "Request that BLM Dot establish any new Class I Open areas." "Specifically oppose the newly proposed Razor Ranch Open Area. This area is surrounded by propoeed ACECs and contains valuable wildlife habitat which is compatible with \1III'CROOed ORV use." "Object a1Io to the continued open area designation of Dove Springs Canyon." As you can plainly ICC the Sierra Club can fmel no place in the deJcn for ORVs. We aU must go to Desert Plan meetings and dispute what tbe Sierra Club is proposing along with telling the BLM that we think the deJcn plan stinks. One fmal note, cut this letter out of Cycle News and take it to the Delert Plan meeting you attend. and usc the WSA list contained above as a personal reference to speak from. o 00 0') WIST CN CN ... Q,) ..c o ... u o America's weekly motorcycle newspaper Sharon Claylon, Publisher. Caroline Gn1dry. Executive Secretary to lhe Publisher. Susan Knecht, Execurive Secretary. Editorial Charles Morey. Managing Editor. Dale Brown, Editor. Mark Kariya. EditOr. Advertising Skip Johnson, National Sales Manager. Terry Pratt, Sales Manager. Linda Brown. Advertising Coordinator. SON OF DESERT DUCK Quack! Quack! Graphics and Production Kristin Coo~r. Graphic Artist. Barbara Travers, Assistant. Marion Hatashita. Typography. Dennis Grecn~. Laboratory. Accounting Mike: Klinger. Manager. Jeanne Hammond. Accts. Receivable. Donna Bryan. Asst. Accu. Receivable. Terry Dailey. C~it ManOlger. Circulation Rheba SmiLh. Manager. Shirley Shan. Sarah Taylor. Michdle Allan, Assistants. Duane Johnson, Dealer Sa.I~ Manager. Want Ads Leslie Tharp. Want Ad Sales. Services and Support Chris Ailcheson. Jamison. 5&5. R«eplionist. JOt" West 2201 Cherry Ave.. Long Beach. CA P.O. Bo.498. Long Beach, CA 90801 (213)427·7433; L.A. Line 636·8844. East 4190 Firsl Ave .. Tucker, GA. P.O. Bo. 80S, Tucker. GA 30084. (404) 934·78S0. Cycle News/West (USPS 141·340) is published weekly except the first and last week of the calendar year for $20 per year by Cycle News. Inc .. 2201 Cherry Avenue. Long Beach. CA 90801. Second class postage paid at Long Beach. CA. POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 to Cycle News. P.O. Box 498. Long Beech. CA 90801. Subscription rates: One year, second class mail. $20; two years. second class mail, S55; three years, ~cond class mail, $55: 25 weeks. S II. Cycle News welcomes unsolicited editorial material including stories, cartoons, phOtos, etc. Such material, if published. becomes t~ exclusive propercy of Cycle News. Such accepted material is subject co revision as is necessary in the sole discretion of Cycle News, Un$Olicited material which is not used will be returned if accompanied by a self· addressed stamped envelope. All ulUOlicited material will be handled with reasonable care. however. Cycle News assumes no responsibility for the safety. loss or damage to such material. Re· printing in whole or pan only by per· mission of the publishers. Advertising rates and circulation information will be ~nt upon r~uest. SeeS.R.D.S. Copyright Cycle News. Inc. 1910. Tredemark Cycle News registered U.S. Patent Office. All rights re· served. 4 ON THE FRONT PAGE: We asked three industry experts to do a little crystal ball gazing for us on the marketplace prospects for 1980. Their fearless predictions can be found on pp. 6-7. Illustration by Kristin Dee Cooper. SCORE's numbers I'm no West Point graduate. but witb my pocket calculator I can add and subtracl. According to the figures provided by SCORE President Sal Fish. there's something funny about their racing payoffs. At the SCORE/Bridgestone Off· Road World Championships at River· side there were 348 total entries 20% were motorcycles. Fish says they paid $128.300 in prize winnings. But only 5.8% ($7500) went to motorcycles. Of the total contingency awards posted. only 26% was paid out. Of this $24,665 only 7.8% went to motorcycles. With 267 car entries at $400 each entry fee, they paid in $110,400. But SCORE paid back $120.000 in prize money - 108% payback. The 72 motorcycles paid $200 each entry for a $14.400 total. But the bikes were paid back $7500 - only 52%. Paid attendance at SCORE's River· side race was said to be $35.000. Averaging but $10 apiece that totals $350,000. Then there's income from concession stands. each SCORE memo ber pays $20 per year. and the contino gency companies pay SCORE too. And the race sponsor, Bridgestone. pays SCORE for exclusive rights to the event's name. Maybe Sal Fish would like to borrow my calculator. It says two plus twO equals four. Not three or five or ... STEVE RONSDEN Highland Park. CA BLM/Slerra Club "Loony Tunes" I just finished reading the Bureau of Land Management's Proposed California Desert Plan which arpears to be the latest installment 0 their version of "Loony Tunes." The Desert Plan does not provide for our recreational needs. It does not reflect the public comments. especially the comments given at the various Desert Plan meetings. It is obvious to me by reading the various Desert Plan minutes/Depositions that the BLM did not listen to us at all. They have left ORVers. rockhounds. miners. ranchers. and many other user groups out in the cold. We all came to give our own imput to the Desert Plan and came away with nothing. Let the BLM know that you are upset. attend their public meetings which run from October 14 to October 22. I am sure that the good folks from Cycle News will be printing a list of where to go and the dates involved. The Sierra Club has issued a newsletter telling us that the BLM spent four ~ars and nearly 10 million dollars producing the Propoeed California Desert Plan and Environmental Impact Statement. yet the plan still fails to meet legal requiremenu. The Sierra Club is calling for the clubs members to support all 2.1 million acres of BLM's recommended wilderness and specifically request the following additional land expansions: Little Picacho (WSA356 Planning Unit. PUIOI); they maintain that this area is threatended by potential mining and off-road vehicle usc. New York Mountains (WSA265. PU69); they maintain that this area is threatended by mining .and grazing conflieu. Chuckwalla Mountain. (WSA348. PU98); the area will be split by a vehicle corridor up Cord Springs Wash. The Sierra Club would like to close the route and prevent access to the area. Turtle Mountains (WSA507. PU85); this area is a volcanic area which would only have the main ridges closed by the BLM. The Sierra Club would like to shut the whole thing down. Saline Valley. (WSA1I7. 1I7A. 125. PU912); the Sierra Club says that boundary expansions are nccded to include the valley floor (the entire valley floor?) and provide for a complete ecosystem and more manage· able boundaries. Other additions they are requesting are the south Algodones Dunes (WSA562, PUI03). Wacoba Wash (WSAI20. PUIO). Kingston Wash (WSA222. PU49. 52,55). Clark Mountain (WSA227. PU65). Woods Mountain (WSA271. PU71). Palo Verde Hills (WSA352. PUIOO) and Mid Hills (WSA264. PU70). The following is a list of areas the Sierra Club would like to see become ACECs: Cima Dome. Cronese Basin.. West Mojave Saltbush Community, Ford Dry Lake and the Colorado River Intagli06. The Sierra Club maintains the Mecca Hills. which I thought we just Illusion As I write this. it looks as if the Check Chase is dead for another year. It appears as if the Sierra Club killed the race. Did they? The answer. mostly likely. is yes and no. The Sierra Club pulled the trigger. but it seems as if someone else planned the murder. loaded the gun. and aimed it. So. who's to blame? Maybe. if we ask a few questions. we can gain some idea. Who would benefit if the Check Chase was postponed to a late o· vember date? Who would benefit from a fight be· tween the AMA and the Phantom Duck? Who could lose a document from a county government? Who could manipulate the entire EIS process? Who will come out of the whole in· cident looking clean and say "Well. we tried." (No J.R .. we can't prove that you or your designees did it - yet. But we will. I promise.) Oh well, since there won't be a Check Chase on October 25, and I don't have anything better to do. I think I will go trail riding. It seems that there are an awful lot of trails out of the Johnson Valley Open Area that go in the general direction of ihe Colorado River. I seem to remember that the Checkers have put up a lot of ribbon on some of those trails. in anticipation of the Check Chase. It seems a real shame to let all that work go to waste and. then. the desert is so nice this time of year. Yeah. since a lot of that area is going to be closed next year. I think I'll go take a last look at it. It is decided. On October 25. 1980. I am going to trail ride from Johnson Valley to Parker. I wonder what everyone else who was going to ride the Check Chase will do that day? THUMPER FREAK 213/862-3975 P.S. J. R. - If you want me. you know where I'll be. The AMA is currently working to gain a permit for the Check Chase through administrative and legal channels. A report on their progress appears in the Latest Poop . .. Editor. Published letters do not necessarily reflect the position of Cycle News, Inc. Send letters to Voices. Box 498, Long Beach. CA90801.