Calisdad wrote:
And today with the declaration of the San Gabriel National Monument 350,000 acres get locked up. Due process is ignored and hunters, who are the single most responsible group in regards to habitat restoration, are locked out. Fire suppression will be minimized and armchair conservationists can high five each other on their I-Phones and think they've done a good thing.
Here's a link to what's happened with San Gabriel:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/10/president-obama-designates-san-gabriel-mountains-national-monumentLet's not over-react on this. The President just made it a National Monument. There's plenty of those everywhere and we camp at them all the time. If that's what is takes to protect them from trashing and free-for-all camp living, then so be it.
I agree with Dan's (profdant139) position ... ESPECIALLY if it helps to make them safer. Folks have no business living permanently on - and trashing, under the gize of camping - our public lands. Nor do druggies have any right to grow you-know-what plants on our public lands.
The DW and myself want to camp on them without having to be armed for protection while out there.
What's up with the Carizo Plain? Is that now a big free-for-all area? I hope not, since I it's a National Monument. We have never been there, but would like to camp in one of it's two camp grounds some spring and thought it would be peaceful and quiet ... and with a little bit of rain-luck ... full of wild flowers.
