Hi Gang,
I also went to the DAC meeting Saturday, nice to meet Tony
there were a lot of enviro-types in attendance, but we outnumbered them about 2 to1
There was a large showing from the ASA
& also the San Diego off road coalition
The meeting kinda drug on, as a lot of topics were discussed,
One topic was expediting the building of power plants & placing transmission lines
through the desert to help our power problem here in California
Another was the use of green sticker money,.... One thing that caught the eye
of Roy Denner, maybe using some green stiker money to help rehabilitate
turtles, rather then just closing more desert off for them
We pretty much dissected Mr Spiler's book "Off road to ruin"
Mr Spitler was in attendance to defend his book,
He started to address the
room by saying he was given a ride in Ed Waldinheims buggy Friday &
very much enjoyed it!
The general mood i got from the whole thing, is the
book "blows out of proportion" what it IS we do in the desert as ORVers
It was very nice to hear that some of the members of the DAC council
openly admit they have flipped from the environmentalist view to multiple use,
So I believe we ARE making a difference
Also I would like to say that im glad the RDC party went well,
I wish we can get the dezert people organized that fast to attend these meetings
& help save our sport.
Tony had an idea to maybe charter a bus for the next meeting &
party & bench race on the way back from the meeting & make it an RDC event
Wayne
