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  1. SAN DIEGO ADVENTURE RIDERS hosted a Dual Sport Ride for Operation Desert Fun on October 15th, 2005, a fundraising event to raise money for fighting Land Closures & Environmental Lawsuits, and also for the Cal-Diego Paralyzed Veterans Association. The final numbers are not in yet, but the raffle Saturday night raised an estimated $7000-$8000 for the PVA. Here's a few photos from Operation Desert Fun Dual Sport Ride The dualsport ride started at main street Ocotillo Wells OHV Area and headed towards the Pumpkin Patch Julie in Tektonic Gorge Rider in the Gorge My KTM 950 and Kevin's ATK parked while we took photos The 2 bikes on right are Julie's 70 year young Dad, and Julie More riders in the Gorge
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  3. YOUR SUPPORT NEEDED TO INCREASE SEQUOIA TRAIL FUNDINGIs it worth your time to attend a meeting or write an email & possibly increase trail funding $10,000 or more? Read onSequoia is asking for $263,000 for trail maintenance & $113,000 for enforcement, but the OHV commission is thinking of funding less than requested. Often the Forest with more people showing up will get more of the money they requested. I would hope that we can get at least 20 people to attend & make a statement on specific Sequoia trails & the need for continued maintenance. We need the trail crews out & OHV rangers to stop people who are not riding responsibly.Please write an email or attend the Green Sticker commission meeting on 10/21 & tell them why we need more trail funding.Here is the agenda for the meeting OHV Commission Meeting Agenda 10-21-05Unfortunately the way they have it set up you must be at the meeting when they call the Sequoia grant & grants are called in order of a list, not by time. They think Sequoia may be heard possibly after lunch around 1pm, but that is only a guess. It depends on how quickly or slowly the meeting moves.If you have the time to spare & want to see how the Green Sticker Bureaucracy works then come before or at 1pm. The meeting starts at 8:30am.I would hope that everyone can take a minute & send an emailBoard of Supervisors’ Chambers Riverside County Administrative Center 4080 Lemon Street, First Floor Riverside, California 92501You can email your comments to:ohvinfo@parks.ca.gov& please CC: a copy to:funding@stewardsofthesequoia.orgONYX RESIDENTS PLAN MEETING TO DISCUSS NOISE & DUST PROBLEMS OF OHV'S RIDDEN ON PRIVATE PROPERTYA townhall meeting has been scheduled on 10/24 6pm at Southfork Middle School Community Center, by local residents who are unhappy by noise & dust created by OHV on other people's private property. Stewards plans on finding out what the problem is & suggesting solutions.This kind of thing can easily turn the local community against all forms of motorized recreation, even on public lands.South Fork Middle School 760 378-13005225 Kelso Valley RoadWeldon, CA If you plan on attending you would do well to look at a map.You can take 178 from Bakersfield past Southlake a few miles & keep a sharp eye out for Kelso Valley Road on your right. Take this out to the school on your right.MATCHING GRANTS STRETCH YOUR DONATIONSMany companies such as Boeing & California Edison may have matching grant programs where they match all or a portion of your donation to Stewards of the Sequoia. Please check with your company to see if they have such a program & increase the leverage of your donation.CHECK OUT THE ULTIMATE TRAIL TOOLStewards of the Sequoia (Ultimate Trail Saw)
  4. From Ocotillo Wells, the ride continued into Anza Borrego State Park through some great scenery, washes and canyons....... Inspiration Point The group at Inspiration Point when we were doing Prerunning for the ride, L to R - Mad Mike (R100GS), Lorrac (WR426), Randy (KTM 640), Ted's bike in background - XR650R Lorrac Mad Mike As we rode through this wash, we came to a spot where the wash was completely blocked by Tumbleweeds......it must've gotten pretty windy out there, we've never seen anything like this before !! We had to ride up out of the wash and ride the trail on top of the ridge along the wash.......we came to this newly formed sand dune, it was too soft to make it across. My 640 standing upright in the deep sand. Most people ate an early lunch in Borrego Springs, then after some neat trails over some mountains and through some deep sand washes. The Culp Valley and Jasper Trail section is in the worst condition I've seen it ever, with the sand being very deep. Later, we got to the Pinyon Mountain trail heading towards the "Squeeze and the Dropoff". During Prerunning, going through the Squeeze Saturday night, a couple of hundred people at the Raffle with all proceeds benefiting the Cal-Diego Paralyzed Veteran's Association. The specs in the photo are from sand particles in the air, since the wind really picked up Saturday night..... This is the first time San Diego Adventure Riders hosted the ride, which had 21 paid entries. This ride has historically had an average of about 20 riders over the last few years. Another link to more photos by Chris........ http://tinyurl.com/7bf3q See you on the next one !!
  5. Link to Cleveland National Forest road and trail conditions & closures......... http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/cleveland/conditions/ Link to Cleveland National Forest HOMEPAGE http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/cleveland/
  6. A serious threat to some of our great riding areas !! PLEASE READ andattend if you can, and make comments to oppose this, or that if they do this then the BLM needs to use some of the money from these leases to purchaseand open new riding areas to replace those lost........... The BLM has a meeting tomorrow, August 3rd to gather public comments aboutproposed leasing of 16,640 acres of BLM managed lands for geothermalexploration and development in the Truckhaven (just outside Ocotillo Wells)and Superstition Mountain areas. Wednesday, August 3, 6:30-8:30pm ,Handlery Hotel & Resort950 Hotel Circle NorthSan Diego BLM staff will present overview of proposed project. Following, BLM willaccept public comment to be recorded by a court reporter. Comment receivedwill be considered during preparation for the Environmental Impact Statementof this proposal. Thanks for listening,
  7. I would like to make a good showing at the SDORC meeting tonight. Who can go ?? I am going for sure. I know it's short notice, but I just found out about it. San Diego Off Road Coalition MeetingRanch House Restaurant, 11510 Woodside Ave., Santee, by Double D - RV Dinner at 6:00pm (if you want), meeting at 7:00pm. I talked with Harold Soens, SDORC president and he is heavily involved with ORBA, CORVA , etc. You can see the Double D - RV from 67, on Woodside Ave. on the east side Thanks,
  8. I have an addiction. It happened again............home at 9:20pm after a 13hour day and 272 miles. Went out on my KTM 950, didn't plan on going out for an all day ride intothe night, but I couldn't resist the urge as the day went on. Went out 94with Ed, Brett, Uncle Dave, Randy W. and hispossible FNG he brought along for breakfast. After, we had plans for somedirt, so we went Harris Ranch dirt road from Twin Oaks restaurant to 94ethen up Buckman to the Bear Valley dirt turnoff to Pine Valley. Had fun inthe dirt to Pine Valley, then beverage stop and gas. Everyone parted ways from Pine Valley, I still had no plans. I decided to doBoulder Creek dirt from Descanso to Engineer Rd. WARNING !! For those doingBoulder Creek, watch out for the first water crossing (if it has water) thatcrosses the PAVED ROAD only about a mile or 2 from where you turn right ontoBoulder Creek from the main Oak Grove Rd. I came up on this not expectingwater there, doing about 40, hit the brakes and slowed a little........oh ohI saw green slime on the concrete, almost lost it. The front wheel slidabout 6" sideways but luckily I stayed upright. The next water crossing onthe dirt part of Boulder Creek still has water running across the entirelength, I slowed down and putted across that one. Had fun in the dirt, then down to Santa Ysabel for gas and anotherbeverage. Hung out for about an hour, talking to some riders, and justrelaxing. Tony 'D pulled up after his Palomar ride, no cops anywhere he saidI was debating what to do, and decided I really didn't want to go home.Tony left, and when I left it was 2:45 and decided to head up 79 north toWarner Springs. I was thinking about pavement to Idyllwild, but then saw theturnoff to Lost Valley, we had done on Greg Minor's adventure bike ride afew months ago. I decided to ride dirt to Anza instead of pavement. I forgotwhat a neat route this is, 20 miles of dirt and great scenery as you crossover some ridges and criss-cross some valleys. At Anza, I headed into townfor beverage stop. While sitting there, enjoying a break, my mind was working on the nextdualsport ride, maybe in November, that will utilize this route. Got back onthe bike and rode west on 371 to Aguanga, and looked for the Palomar Dividedirt road turnoff. I had never done it yet, but remembered Kevin say it cameout by a trailer park. I saw that, and the nearby dirt roads, and found myway to the Palomar Divide Rd. Man, I really enjoyed this route !! I thoughtit went along the base of the mountains, but it crosses the high ridges justeast of Palomar for 25 miles !! The views of the area were awesome from upthere. I came to an old stone house and checked it out. The road lookedfreshly paved from here, I was really disappointed to see blacktop. BUT, itwas only for 3 miles, then more dirt to the bottom. Weird seeing blacktopfor 3 miles, and not even from the paved road up. Hit 79 and went south, stopped at Warner Springs Ranch to see if they'reopen to the public for rooms for future dualsport ride, but the rules say NOMOTORCYCLES on property.........BOO HOO at them !! Stopped at Santa Ysabel,restaurant closed so I bought some stuff from the Market and had a littlepicnic. Isn't that nice...LOL. Met a cool Harley guy and we talked, he's thinking about buying some landnorth of Ridgecrest on the 395 and building a biker only, Iron Buttcampground (minimal facilities). I gave him my card and told him to let meknow if he does it. Left Santa Ysabel as it got dark, Old Julian fun as it was still just lightenough, then Wildcat with all the slowpokes home. I hope I never overcome THIS addiction !! Randy LazarSan Diego Adventure Riderswww.dualsport-sd.com
  9. Check out the upcoming Rides forum. Yes, we are hosting a desert ride for Operation Desert Fun on October 15th. Then, we will have another ride in February or March of 2006.Maybe some other free rides in between. How about a night ride ??
  10. Link to Good Article and Magazine...........I suggest you check out the link and go to the Special Reports section, many excellent articles to inform you about land closures and the threats we are facing as recreationists on public lands.Randy -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stewards of the Sequoia article published in RANGE magazine That's right the Stewards article "How to Keep Your Trails Open" has been published in award winning RANGE magazine. This great national magazine reaches far beyond the normal off road recreation only circles. For those of you who may not be familiar with RANGE magazine it is an outstanding publication. They have dug into the heart of issues that main stream media somehow have a hard time mentioning, let alone uncovering. There are excellent articles in every issue on topics that effect everyone. The mission at RANGE Magazine is to tell all sides of the story of the today's West. As one reader says "nobody else has the guts to do it!" They are quarterly, but feisty enough to scoop The Washington Post and to be a data source for Fox news and other national media. The stories are about real people, living and working on the land, coping with some tough and often bewildering problems. There are tears and laughter, heartbreak and passion, tenderness and breathtaking beauty. That's the real West you find in RANGE. Maybe that's why RANGE has been called "the voice of reason amidst a cacophony of madmen." RANGE has produced Special Reports dealing with The Nature Conservancy, endangered species, conservation easements, water allocation and more. Natures Land Lord-Fraud by The Nature Conservancy Wildland Project, Plan to link over 50% of the US with Wilderness Areas Can you say CLOSURERancher sues Environmental Conflict Group & WINSI highly recommend that you sign up for a year subscription. You can purchase a subscription for only $15.95 (regular price $19.95) on their website, but if you'd like a better discount, RANGE has offered $15 if our members call 1-800-RANGE-4-U and mention "Stewards of the Sequoia". What prompted "How to Keep Your Trails Open" was, "Your Trail Next", a plea for help with trail Closures in RANGE. Unless more people get involved, it is likely that your trail will be next. Remember the eight trails that were closed improperly last year & re-opened after Stewards hounded forest service for answers. Well they are at it again. More trails closed improperly. Fortunately Stewards is here to help.Please join Stewards, membership is free.Stewards of the Sequoia is making a difference in our local area & elsewhere. We certainly appreciate the help & support we have received from our members. With your help we will be able to reach out to new members & increase our voices. TOGETHER WE CAN KEEP OUR TRAILS OPEN-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  11. Link to Good Article and Magazine...........I suggest you check out the link and go to the Special Reports section, many excellent articles to inform you about land closures and the threats we are facing as recreationists on public lands.Randy -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Stewards of the Sequoia article published in RANGE magazine That's right the Stewards article "How to Keep Your Trails Open" has been published in award winning RANGE magazine. This great national magazine reaches far beyond the normal off road recreation only circles. For those of you who may not be familiar with RANGE magazine it is an outstanding publication. They have dug into the heart of issues that main stream media somehow have a hard time mentioning, let alone uncovering. There are excellent articles in every issue on topics that effect everyone. The mission at RANGE Magazine is to tell all sides of the story of the today's West. As one reader says "nobody else has the guts to do it!" They are quarterly, but feisty enough to scoop The Washington Post and to be a data source for Fox news and other national media. The stories are about real people, living and working on the land, coping with some tough and often bewildering problems. There are tears and laughter, heartbreak and passion, tenderness and breathtaking beauty. That's the real West you find in RANGE. Maybe that's why RANGE has been called "the voice of reason amidst a cacophony of madmen." RANGE has produced Special Reports dealing with The Nature Conservancy, endangered species, conservation easements, water allocation and more. Natures Land Lord-Fraud by The Nature Conservancy Wildland Project, Plan to link over 50% of the US with Wilderness Areas Can you say CLOSURERancher sues Environmental Conflict Group & WINSI highly recommend that you sign up for a year subscription. You can purchase a subscription for only $15.95 (regular price $19.95) on their website, but if you'd like a better discount, RANGE has offered $15 if our members call 1-800-RANGE-4-U and mention "Stewards of the Sequoia". What prompted "How to Keep Your Trails Open" was, "Your Trail Next", a plea for help with trail Closures in RANGE. Unless more people get involved, it is likely that your trail will be next. Remember the eight trails that were closed improperly last year & re-opened after Stewards hounded forest service for answers. Well they are at it again. More trails closed improperly. Fortunately Stewards is here to help.Please join Stewards, membership is free.Stewards of the Sequoia is making a difference in our local area & elsewhere. We certainly appreciate the help & support we have received from our members. With your help we will be able to reach out to new members & increase our voices. TOGETHER WE CAN KEEP OUR TRAILS OPEN-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  12. The Endangered Species Act has been used for years by the environmental groups, to shut down public lands and eliminate or limit motorized use in certain areas. It needs to be changed. Please read and get involved by sending fax or e-mail. Thanks, Randy Lazar We have an opportunity here to make a difference & leverage off the fine ground work that ALRA has done in putting together the documents for you to FAX on revising the Endangered Species Act. Having done considerable research on past Congressional reviews I can tell you that there are often very few written comments. How many hours have each of us spent complaining about problems with the Endangered Species Act. Please take the time & follow the directions below to make your testimony to stop ESA abuses. Please help Congressman Pombo & the Resources Committee revise the ESA. You can make a difference. Thanks Chris Horgan Stewards of the Sequoia Land Rights Network American Land Rights Association PO Box 400 – Battle Ground, WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 – Fax: 360-687-2973 E-mail: alra@landrights.org or alra@governance.net Web Address: http://www.landrights.org Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE – Washington, DC 20003 Endangered Species Act Changes Expected Soon In Congress Action Deadline June 20, 2005. The Resources Committee is in the final stages of deciding what provisions will go into a draft bill for Congress to consider how to update and modernize the ESA. You still have time to make a difference. Your personal involvement is easy and critical. See below. The Resources Committee will come out with a bill sometime soon. Probably within the next month or two. From there the ESA bill will begin a long and difficult road through the Resources Committee and on to the House of Representatives. If it passes out of the House, it will then begin a similar difficult trip through the Senate. That is likely going to be more difficult than the House. The provisions you want in the bill are not going to get there unless you fight for them. Whining and moaning that one or another particular provision we really want is not there will get us nowhere. All of us must take action now. The Resources Committee will pass what is possible. You must help make it possible. If enough people get excited and fight for certain provisions, then they may well survive the process. If you lay back and put the load on your Congressman or the members of the Resources Committee, you’re likely to lose in the end. Compensation is a critical issue to most of us who believe the ESA must be fixed so it can actually recover species. At this point it is a failure having helped recover only 10 out of 1300 species. Landowners must be made to be allies of the process of recovering species. They must not have to do it with a gun to their heads. Voluntary and incentive based language is critical here. And landowners must be compensated when they take land out of production to benefit a species. Some will oppose these changes. They will be very aggressively opposed by others. How hard you fight through your letters, phone calls, faxes and e-mails to your Congressman and the Resources Committee will determine whether the provisions you support survive. Action Items: -----1. Deadline – June 20, 2005 -- You can be a part of the process in two ways. The first is to print out one or more of the Testimony Questionnaires on the home page of www.landrights.org and fax or mail them to American Land Rights and/or the Resources Committee. You can use these Testimony Questionnaires to tell Congress your priorities. See below for the addresses. -----2. Help us pick the priorities you want to fight for. Below is a list of the changes to the Endangered Species Act developed by some members of the Grassroots ESA Coalition. We need you to pick your top six changes and e-mail or fax them back to us. E-mail them to ccushman@landrights.org or fax them to (360) 687-2973. This list of principles or positions below is in a very rough order of priority that has not been approved by the Grassroots ESA Coalition. Please simply edit this message so that only your top six priorities show. Delete the rest. -----1. Property Rights: The Act should require compensation for regulatory takings. Federal agencies should be subject to a statutorily directed preference for using voluntary, un-coerced contracts with property owners for a temporary lease or agreement to manage land for the benefit of a listed species. A deal is a deal, the government should be bound by any agreement it makes with a landowner. -----2. Incentives: Use Voluntary, Contractual, Compensated Habitat Management that would increase the quality of wildlife habitat while lessening the conservation disincentives contained in current law. Exempt a property owner from land use regulation when his management practices create or maintain habitat for endangered species. Create an ESA version of the CRP and require a substantial part of funding go to the ESA/CRP program. -----3. Make Safe Harbor agreements user friendly and truly safe. -----4. The definition of "take" should be changed to require a direct and proximate connection between the action and the loss of a specific individual member of a listed species. -----5. Science: The definition of species should incorporate new scientific information on the genetic make-up of species. Require independent peer review of the science used in listing. -----6. Require Independent Scientific Review, what some have called “sound science.” -----7. Conservation of subspecies and distinct populations should be actively promoted but these categories should not be covered by the regulatory parts of the Act. Species that are beneficial or unique should be given priority. -----8. Economic Considerations: Base listing decisions on science, but subject any restrictions to consideration of economic and social factors. Require ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSES. -----9. A sunset provision should be added to ESA so the act expires after 5 years unless re-authorized. Require species to be re-listed or dropped from the list after 10 years. -----10. Requiring completion or amendment of recovery plans before designating critical habitat. -----11. Require that any listing or critical habitat designations be based on actual verified field data demonstrating the presence of the species and not based on scientific "hypothesis" that the species may one day be present. -----12. Amend the definition of critical habitat to require that FWS find the area itself is essential to the conservation of the species and requires special management measures based on actual verifiable field data and not simply because FWS has found that the species Primary Constituent Elements (PCEs) are present. -----13. Require FWS to utilize data developed by State, local and regional wildlife agencies in making Critical Habitat and listing decisions. -----14. Require the FWS to work on recovery not just listing more species. -----15. Require regionally even enforcement. Fairy shrimp-like crustaceans, for example, occur in eastern metropolitan areas and although they are more endangered than California fairy shrimp, the FWS refuses to list them. -----16. Federalism. The general primacy of state authority over wildlife should recognized in ESA. -----17. Reimburse agencies for ESA costs from the FWS budget. -----18. Place restrictions on introduced, experimental populations. -----19. Expedite permits. Secretary must issue or deny within 90 days. -----20. Exemptions for human health and safety and permitted activities. -----21. Add transparency, openness and privacy protection provisions. -----22. Consider, analyze and test alternative recovery strategies. -----23. Include landowners in decision-making. -----24. Have a no-net-loss of private property provision. Reminder –Deadline—Monday, June 20th. Get your testimony in the official hearing record of the Resources Committee. Send your filled out Testimony Questionnaires to the American Land Rights Association at PO Box 400, Battle Ground, WA 98604. Or fax it to (360) 687-2973. You can also send them to the Resources Committee directly. The Committee information is below. Send your priority issues list to ccushman@landrights.org You can also send your send your testimony to: Resources Committee FAX: (202) 225-5929 E-mail: resources.committee@mail.house.gov Website: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/ Need more information -- phone: (360) 687-3087 **** Want to be kept informed about events affecting the Endangered Species Act? Join the Grassroots ESA Coalition. Just send a message with your contact information (name, address, phone, fax and e-mail to ccushman@landrights.org Be sure to tell us if your group wants to be a sponsor of the Grassroots ESA Coalition. There are over 300 organizations as co-sponsors and a many more individuals. There is no cost. Be sure to tell us a little about your group. Please call or e-mail at least five friends to urge them to get testimony in for the record by Midnight, Monday, June 20th. **** ****Please forward this message as widely as possible. Thank you.
  13. Go to this link for Americans for Responsible Recreation Access newsletter, a good way to stay informed about land access issues..........sign up to get newsletter by e-mail. http://www.arra-access.com/arra/washington...ter_june05.html
  14. Well folks, last year's BBQ didn't happen, not enough people responded. By now, we have more people who have posted here, and more contacts from the last dualsport ride in March. So, I will try to plan a BBQ sometime this summer. Thanks
  15. Hi Dick, yes, I remember you on the Transalp outside the restaurant. I have a picture of your bike and you. Good to hear from you. If you're ever in SoCal, make sure you look me up. Send me a PM and your e-mail, and I'll give you my phone number.Thanks,
  16. There's always someone on the ride you can ask to ride with, most people don't mind someone joining them. You could always ride with the sweep crew also.Thanks, hope you make it next time,Randy
  17. Subject: Dual Sport Conversions in CaliforniaAs you probably know, due to a re-interpretation of California's codes by the California Air Resources Board, converting a green-sticker off-highway motorcycle for street use became virtually impossible last year. Thanks to all of you, the letter writing campaign to governor Davis last year was successful in delaying the implementation of the new rule until February 2004. Well, we are trying one more time to reverse this change in DMV policy. Governor Schwarzenegger (a KTM owner himself) is highly critical of CARB and might be a bit more in touch with reality than the previous administration. We have the support of DMV, the highway patrol, and a governor interested in generating revenue and saving money. Please go to the Baja Designs home page www.bajadesigns.com and download one of the letters - or even better, write your own - and send it off to the governor. For the most impact we are trying to have these letters hit all at the same time, so please do this right away. Tell your friends!! Happy trails, Alan Roach & Deanne MooreBaja Designs alan@bajadesigns.comdeanne@bajadesigns.com
  18. Well, it's a workout with the big bike on the tighter, tougher trails, but I'm used to riding my 900 Elefant. I like the challenge !!
  19. Guys, whenever you want to go riding, post a message in this forum. Also, if anyone wants to be added to our e-mail list, let me know and I will add you. Send me a PM.
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