Our delicate desert its love deepening danger and hopes
The California desert, vast as Ohio, is an open-air museum of human habitation and a fragile ecosystem. A federal 40 million planning effort aims by 1980 to balance mining, recreation, and conservation across 12.5 million acres amid ORV use, wildlife loss, and erosion risks. The BLM warns that careless use could turn open space into waste land while lawmakers push for a master conservation plan.
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In Desert Center near Blythe on I-10 locals press a balanced master plan for public lands. Ragsdale recalls aqueducts and WWII patrols while opposing heavy BLM policing and ridgeline wipeouts. Local groups urge transmission lines along existing corridors and continued ORV use with minimal closures.
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