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13.09.2006
Vista Point near Palm Spring, California






... Maybe it will be opened up again. ...



Earlier Oz Report articles on Vista Point
here.


Mike Hilberath ()
writes:


Well HANG GLIDING COMMUNITY, you can all pat yourselves on the
back yet again! The BLM, on Sept. 9th, 2006, has decided to re-open the issue of
hang gliding at Vista Point!! This is monumental (ifnotslowinsomepeopleseyes)!!!


They are going to look at the issue of hang gliding at Vista Point again, in the
light that the SRSJNM Trails Management Record of Decision (ROD) changed from
"Precautionary" to "Adaptive" as the National Monument Management planned was
formed. Thereby, allowing a "study" of the effects of hiking on the Bighorn
Sheep, and not a complete ban on all hiking in the Monument.


And hence, in a round-about-governmental-way, the issue of whether or not the
decision to ban hang gliding was made in the correct light, or correct at all?
Comprende?


So now, the BLM has an opening for a "RECEATIONAL PLANNER". IF ANYONE KNOWS OF A
HANG GLIDER PILOT/RECREATIONAL PLANNER, WHO WANTS TO LIVE IN PALM DESERT, please
let me know! Once the BLM has this Recreational Planner on board, it will be
late Spring of 2007 before he/she will even begin to start to look into the
issue of Hang Gliding at Vista Point. Oh well. Thought the wheels of justice
turn slowly, yet they do turn... Anyone want to hang glide with your adult grand
son? Mike Hilberath 949-683-9519


Background (the beginning)


Hang gliding at Vista Point CA. Banned due to the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto
National Monument Land Management Plan. Without representation, and with no
data, it was proposed that hang gliding at Vista Point causes harm to the
endangered Bighorn Sheep in the area.


The hang gliding community became aware of this situation only after the fact.


The hang gliding community requested that the issue be revisited by the Monument
Action Committee (MAC).


The MAC created a Monument Working Group to look into creating an amendment to
the land management plan.


The Working Group held a meeting with concerned pilots and it was decided that
they would not recommend that an amendment be added to the land management plan,
but that other suitable sites be identified in the monument in lieu of Vista
Point.


On April 29th, 2005, at the advisement of the Monument Working Group,
representatives of the BLM, San Bernardino National Forest (SBNF), and USHGA
drove all over the monument and forest in search of a suitable site to
accommodate hang gliding. Santa Rosa Mountain peak, and a landing area located
in the Pinyon Flats community, was identified as the only possible alternate
site.


A letter has been submitted to the SBNF service requesting the creation of a
"New" hang gliding site. The work put forth by the government agencies was
unprecedented. They were actually helping to find a site that could be used in
the pursuit of hang gliding!


(time passes)


Well HANG GLIDING COMMUNITY, you can all pat yourselves on the back! The MAC, on
Nov. 5th, 2005, has recommended that the BLM consider amending the San Jacinto
and Santa Rosa National Monument Land Management Plan to allow hang gliding from
VISTA POINT. All I can say is THANK YOU ALL. Your great show of support, showing
up for meetings, writing letters, staying informed helped invaluably in the
efforts to get Vista Point re-opened. At this point in time, the decision to
amend the plan is in BLM's hands. And also at this time, the BLM will not listen
to the public concerning this matter; unless, someone had any new information
about the effects of hang gliding on the Peninsular Big Horn Sheep. Anyone?



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