. The California desert, majestic, challenging, and very vulnerable. Deserts. CDC A 137 LIMITED PLAN. TIME. September 30 ^^1980 A NEW MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR THE CALIFORNIA DESERT . . The planning effort taking place in the California desert today — a task unprecedented in scope and complexity — had its origins in the late sixties. By that time the impacts of recreationists had brought the Bureau of Land Management to a new reality. Abuse of highly sensitive resources was taking place at an alarming rate. The abuse was both deliberate and inadvertent. The age of passive management in the deser
. The California desert, majestic, challenging, and very vulnerable. Deserts. CDC A 137 LIMITED PLAN. TIME. September 30 ^^1980 A NEW MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR THE CALIFORNIA DESERT . . The planning effort taking place in the California desert today — a task unprecedented in scope and complexity — had its origins in the late sixties. By that time the impacts of recreationists had brought the Bureau of Land Management to a new reality. Abuse of highly sensitive resources was taking place at an alarming rate. The abuse was both deliberate and inadvertent. The age of passive management in the desert had to end. It was mandatory to halt and turn back a trend that would truly make a wasteland of this desert. A small-scale study of recreation impacts confirmed the most dire estimates. BLM began a modestly financed "Desert Program" to curb the most extreme abuses and to begin the long-range planning for all resources in the desert. A minimal Desert Plan Staff (DPS), made up of several disciplines, began the planning process on an area-by-area basis. Federal j Land Policy and Management Act of I976. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Land Management. Colorado State Office. Riverside, Calif. : Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, California Desert Plan Program
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