Save Tesla Park uses California Native Plant Society to Help End OHV Program

[Butch]

Celeste Garamendi and her pals (who are behind the four (4) lawsuits challenging the new General Plan (expansion) of Carnegie) got State Parks to publish "Off-Highway Vehicle Reform: Environmental Damage from Off Highway Vehicles (OHV) activity is outpacing California's ability to repair it" in their newsletter with this link
http://www.cnps.org/cnps/publications/cnpsbulletin/v47.3_jul-sep2017.pdf of misinformation.

Don Amador has written this brilliant rebuttal
https://thegeneralsrecreationden.blogspot.com/2017/07/op-ed-rebuttal-to-cnpss-anti-ohv.html
Please share with you State Senators and Assemblymembers.
This needs a legal challenge. This costs real money. If you can, donate to Don Amador, Quiet Warrior Racing, the AMA, especially District 36 and CORVA and the BRC.

If we do nothing we lose our riding areas, trails go to shit. Campgrounds are gone. No one empties the toilets or dumpsters....

"Save Tesla Park, the Connally suit, SPRAWLDEF and the county of Alameda are just roadblocks created by Celeste Garamendi and her pals. They will ignore the environmental consequences of unmanaged OHV activity just to make sure everyone knows dirtbikes leave tracks. Sometimes invisible ones.

Please, make friends with the staff of your Senators and Assembly members; they are mostly really good folks and have more vision than just the next election cycle. They need to know this is a wonderful exercising outdoor activity for your family. The existing program creates habitat for the forest creatures by regulating through intelligent management, where we ride and where we don't ride.

Invite them to Metcalf or Hollister for a tour of these beautiful parks.

 

[Butch]

State Parks has offered an olive branch.

Per our Leader, Don Amador, the latest newletter opens with this: On the first page (lead paragraph) of the new (July 14) Weekly Digest, CA State Parks responds to our concerns.
Their response **************************************
Thank you for reading the Weekly Digest, which includes a collection of news articles related to the California
Department of Parks and Recreation. It is not our practice to include stories advocating a position on active legislation.
Last week, however, we inadvertently included a newsletter advocating for a measure proposing significant
changes to one of our signature programs — Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation. Thank you to those
of you who brought this to our attention.

We are proud to serve you through our diverse programs at the California Department of Parks and Recreation.jh
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OHVers are passionate about our sport and only ask that we are treated in a fair manner.
Thanks again for a job well done and for your continued support of the sport and our collective
efforts to protect the CA OHV Program.

Happy Trails,
Don Amador