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[QUOTE="KTMrad, post: 212325, member: 22365"] SKID MARKS ISSUE #44 November 26, 2001 Skid Marks, Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads' (usually) biweekly e-mail newsletter, reports on activist efforts to challenge roads and motorized recreation nationwide. Skid Marks shares instructive and precedent-setting successes and failures in the campaign to halt motorized abuse of wildland ecosystems. --- CONTENTS: 1. JUDGE DISMISSES CHALLENGE TO NEW MONUMENTS 2. MASSIVE HOLIDAY CROWDS DESCEND ON IMPERIAL SAND DUNES 3. FOREST SERVICE PROPOSES ROAD CLOSURES TO PROTECT GRIZZ 4. POLARIS RECALLS ***S 5. WV COAL COMPANIES CLOSE ROADS TO ***S 6. COLLISION WITH FLYING DUCK KILLS JET SKI RIDER --- 1. JUDGE DISMISSES CHALLENGE TO NEW MONUMENTS A federal judge upheld former President Clinton’s designation of six national monuments across the western U.S., reported Associated Press on November 16. The Mountain States Legal Defense Fund brought the lawsuit, arguing that Clinton overstepped his authority under the Antiquities Act, the law he used to establish the monuments, and challenging the constitutionality of the Act itself. The lawsuit aimed to invalidate the designation of the Cascades-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon, Hanford Reach in Washington, Canyons of the Ancients in Colorado, and Grand Canyon-Parashant, Ironwood Forest, and Sonoran Desert National Monuments in Arizona. Another lawsuit, challenging Clinton's 1996 creation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, is pending in Utah Federal District Court. Clinton used the Antiquities Act to create 19 national monuments and expand three others during his tenure in the White House. --- 2. MASSIVE HOLIDAY CROWDS DESCEND ON IMPERIAL SAND DUNES Nearly 200,000 spent their Thanksgiving weekend recreating at the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area in Southern California, reported the November 26 Yuma Daily Sun. This figure is more than twice that of last year. In addition to driving under the influence arrests and more than 200 medical response calls tallied by authorities, today’s Imperial Valley Press reported that two men were killed in ORV accidents and one arrested for attempted murder after trying to run down a Bureau of Land Management ranger. The area was the site of a near-riot over Thanksgiving weekend in 1999, resulting in injuries to law enforcement officers and civilians. --- 3. FOREST SERVICE PROPOSES ROAD CLOSURES TO PROTECT GRIZZ The Forest Service is proposing to close 43 to 61 miles of roads now open to “unrestricted traffic,” restricting motorized travel on “at least 16 miles of other roads and 11 miles of trails,” and obliterating 520 miles of currently gated roads to protect grizzly bear habitat, reported the Spokane Spokesman-Review and GREENlines last week. The move comes as the result of a settlement with conservation groups. The proposal is described in a newly released Draft Environmental Impact Statement for 28 Bear Management Units on the Kootenai, Lolo, and Idaho Panhandle National Forests in Idaho, Montana, and eastern Washington. Conservationists, while pleased with the closures, are concerned that they are insufficient to protect the area’s grizzly bear population. "In the big picture, this proposal is not consistent with the known biological needs of the grizzly bear,” Ryan Shaffer of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies told Skid Marks. “Despite a plethora of local, state, and federal laws that mandate it, the Forest Service is unwilling to make protection and recovery of grizzly bears a priority.” --- 4. POLARIS RECALLS ***S A November 20 Associated Press story reported on a recall of 12,000 all-terrain vehicles by their manufacturer, Polaris Industries of Medina, Minnesota. The recall was sparked by a transmission problem, which can cause the rear wheels to lock, leading to loss of vehicle control. Polaris sold the machines during the past three years for approximately $6,300 apiece. At least seven incidents related to the defect have been reported. --- 5. WV COAL COMPANIES CLOSE ROADS TO ***S Driven by concerns about increasing liability, coal companies owning most of the prime boar range in West Virginia’s Spruce Laurel Watershed blocked many of the main access roads with loads of rock rubble, says a story in the November 9 Charleston Daily Mail. "They blocked the roads because of the aggravation created by all-terrain vehicles," Tom Dotson, district wildlife biologist for the state Division of Natural Resources, told the Mail. The West Virginia DNR introduced Russian wild boars to the area in the early 1970s. Boar populations have declined in recent years due to influxes of competing wildlife, increasing land disturbance from new mines and logging, and drastic increases in the use of ***s for hunting. "It seems everyone has become affluent and owns an ***," Dotson says. "They drive them up every drain, every hollow, out every ridge." --- 6. COLLISION WITH FLYING DUCK KILLS JET SKI RIDER A jet skier died after an apparent collision with an airborne duck while riding across a lake about 20 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, says a November 20 Associated Press report. The jet ski was traveling at approximately 55 miles per hour when the accident occurred. The rider, an employee of a local Yamaha dealership, was testing the machine. "Our theory is that the bird was airborne and clocked him in the head," said David Bamdas, an owner of the dealership. Given the speed of the jet ski, the 10- to 15-pound duck "might as well have been a cinder block," Bamdas said. ********************************************* Please keep in touch with us about your roads and motorized recreation work. Questions about Skid Marks should be directed to Jacob Smith at [email]prebles@indra.com[/email]. Please send e-mail action alerts to [email]WildlandsCPR@wildrockies.org[/email]. TO SUBSCRIBE If you aren't already subscribed to Skid Marks and you would like to be, send an email to [email]majordomo@indra.com[/email] with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe skidmarks [your email address] TO UNSUBSCRIBE Likewise, if you would like to remove yourself from our listserve, send an email to [email]majordomo@indra.com[/email] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe skidmarks [your email address] Skid Marks is brought to you by the friendly road-rippers at Wildlands CPR. Thanks for your support and all of your efforts on behalf of wild places and imperiled species. ******************************************** Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads P.O. Box 7516 Missoula, MT 59807 (406) 543-9551 [email]WildlandsCPR@wildlandscpr.org[/email] [url]www.wildlandscpr.org[/url] [/QUOTE]
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