"Disposal Site" near BLM Moonrocks OHV Area
Carson City BLM Field Office
QWR strongly supports the decision made today by Acting
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt to issue a secretarial order requiring BLM to consider
public access for outdoor recreational activities before deciding whether a
federal parcel should be sold or exchanged.
INTERIOR ORDER 3373
This order should help the agency strengthen its ongoing commitment
to preserving OHV recreation opportunities when disposal areas – previously identified
by the BLM or Congress – overlap, or are adjacent to, existing Special
Recreation Management Areas or other recreation or general use designations.
In California and other Western States, checkerboard or
matrix lands can impede the BLM’s effort to provide connectivity for federally
maintained roads and trails.
Consolidation can improve both motorized and non-motorized recreational
opportunities particularly where the public was prohibited from legal egress
and ingress by non-federal land owners.
Don Amador, President of Quiet Warrior Racing/Consulting,
states, “I have long supported the concept of consolidation of BLM administered
lands for public benefit and careful review of proposed disposal lands to
ensure they are not currently being used for recreational activities or have
the potential to provide access to new trails or other forms of recreation.”
“As a newly appointed ‘OHV Recreation’ representative to
the Central CA BLM RAC, I look forward to discussions with other RAC members
and the agency about looking for opportunities to purchase or exchange non-federal
lands to enhance public access and recreational opportunity at existing BLM
units or create new recreation sites in underserved areas,” Amador concludes.
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