Big Changes in Store for White Wash Sand Dunes!
The preliminary draft management plan for the popular White Wash Sand Dune area has been posted on BLM's website. The plan contemplates severe restrictions on camping, a fee program and restrictions one would expect to find in areas where endangered species ARE found.
Indeed, proposed management requires fencing all cottonwood trees and all areas where standing water can be found! -- Can you imagine?
Now, even though there really is no "rare subspecies" of Cottonwood tree, we propose that there must be, in light of the actions that are being considered! Although extensive genetic testing shows absoloutly no difference between a Normal Cottonwood and an Endangered Cottonwood, we have figured out how the BLM is telling them apart...
What could be the reason behind wanting to fence around the cottonwoods at white wash and nowhere else in the world apart from there actually being a rare subspecies? Maybe they really aren't trying to "protect" anything at all. Their whole agenda seems to be to shut down as much land as they can to the public. Since they couldn't find anything that actually was endangered at White Wash, they had to do their best to fabricate something. Of course this isn't all BLM's fault. Super radical organizations such as SUWA are gaining strength and pushing their crap wherever they can. Does it seem wrong to anyone else that people who choose to ride ohv's at White Wash may no longer be able to enjoy the shade of a cottonwood tree, or search for tadpoles in a pool of water, while the rest of the world of humans and animals can? This is only the beginning, Suwa wants all areas such as this shut down to all humans, and they won't stop until all our freedoms to use these areas are gone.
You can help by joining such things as BRC's Moab Partnership. Visit the Blue Ribbon Coalition's web site or USA ALL for more on land issues.
17. Yea, and the herb, and the good things which come of the earth, whether for food or for raiment, or for houses, or for barns, or for orchards, or for gardens, or for vineyards;
18. Yea, all things which come of the earth, in the season thereof, are made for the benefit and the use of man, both to please the eye and to gladden the heart;
19. Yea, for food and for raiment, for taste and for smell, to strengthen the body and to enliven the soul.
20. And it pleaseth God that he hath given all these things unto man; for unto this end were they made to be used, with judgment, not to excess, neither by extortion.
