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To: Skywatcher who wrote (390944)	4/12/2003 1:07:49 PM
From: dave rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<< Pierson's milk vetch>> I wish I had a "milk vetch" in my backyard!!!

To: Skywatcher who wrote (390944)	4/12/2003 1:25:59 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The American Sand Association, a grass-roots, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the use of public lands for sand-sport enthusiasts' use, learned that the Center for Biological Diversity of Tucson AZ filed a petition with the US Fish & Wildlife Service to list the Andres Dunes Scarab Beetle as "threatened" in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area. "The ASA's legal and biological teams are reviewing the CBD's petition, which we obtained through the Freedom of Information Act," says Grant George, ASA's Biological Committee chairman. "If it's based on the same flawed science the Pierson's Milk Vetch petition was, then we will have no problem shooting it down. The CBD's efforts are just another attempt at forcing the permanent closure of 49,000 acres of the ISDRA, one of the most popular sand riding spots in the USA. They know they've lost the Milk Vetch issue because our peer-reviewed studies prove it's flourishing in the open areas, proving there is no need for the closed areas." "In 1994 the US Congress created a 32,000-acre Wilderness Area in the ISDRA specifically to set aside critical habitat for any and all species of concern at the ISDRA. So far nobody has proven any need for more," says Greg Gorman, ASA's National Media Relations Director. Jerry Seaver, ASA President said, "Since 1974, special interest groups, including the CBD, have been slowly closing millions of acres of California, Arizona and New Mexico public lands to motorized access using this tactic. It's time to make them stop and use valid science, not ancient or nonexistent data and quit wasting our (taxpayer) money on frivolous lawsuits." Out of the roughly 25 million acres of public land in the California Desert Conservation Area, only about 2 million acres are open for motorized recreation, according to the BLM's Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the ISDRA.