User fees for all offroad venues are going up.
260.000 people used Glamis, 130.000 at Dumont over Presidents day, only 7 showed up to the meeting with the BLM.
First of all,, Green sticker fund money, supposedly earmarked to run off road venues has been taken over radical enviros appointed by left wing polititians.
No more Green Sticker money goes to ANY off road venue, but to radical enviro efforts programs instead.
So we have to sue in court.
That will be $$$, and years.
Also,
That left Calif offroad venues 5 million short of cash to operate too.
Octillo, Kennedy, Superstition, Glamis, El Mirage on and on all way short of money.
BLM wanted to raise the fees 250%,, but we have held them to less,, perhaps the break-even point.
The BLM is good to deal with, it's not adversarial. Congress wants recreation places to pay for themselves.
BLM gave the item by item cost to operate. From neck braces, to vehicle costs, to toilet paper, to housing, paying and feeding LEOS,, water trucks, medical response, on and on.
Lot's and lots of issues came up, and were voted on.
The enviros raped the green sticker program, the talk is they can take over the CF number fees programs too. Raiding CF number fee program has begun already.
The people representing the motorsport users took their own vacation time, or used their day off, and drove from as far away as San Francisco,, San Diego,, Yuma, (and Simi Valley), on their own dime.
No one believed it when we spread the word major sections of Pismo will close,, then again when Glamis got hit with closures, with more court battle to follow.
The Hetch Hetchy dam is about to get the jack hammer, Glen Canyon (Lake Powell) is next on their agenda.
Nahhh,, they can't do that.
Oh yes "they" can,, and eventually will.
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Took the wifes S2000 with the top down Simi to the Barstow meeting, and blasting ZZ top and the London Rifles.
Got up to 138 for a short stretch BTW. Had a lot more left in it.http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...05_070-med.jpg
Moms got herself a little steamer.