This was in the Letters to the Editor section.

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Gone is gone
It seems like every time we turn around, some piece of our environment is being chewed up. The latest is the government's decision to reopen a slowly recovering portion of California's habitat to the noise, pollution and destruction of off-road vehicles. The area known as Imperial Sand Dunes near Glamis will soon be torn apart again in another bone-headed decision by the Bureau of Land Management, which seems only to be listening to one side of the argument. Why do all the recent decisions by our current administration favor the commercial side of our society? Since when is someone guaranteed the right to operate a business?

One by one, the accomplishments of the Clinton administration are disappearing: high employment, strong stock market, international influence and, perhaps most important and long-lasting, the protection of nonrenewable and fragile natural resources.

I live near the San Gabriel Canyon and have seen firsthand the destruction of a portion of the North Fork of the San Gabriel River bottom caused by these noisy toys and their owners.

The abusers have gradually enlarged their area of operation to the point that a once-important riparian habitat is now a huge pile of dust. Once it's gone, it's gone!

Tom Reinberger

Glendora

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What do you guys think?
You think he has ever even been to Glamis, or he just wants to complain about something he knows nothing about? As for Azusa canyon, geesh, there is a reason it is a canyon, water runoff from snow and rain go down the canyon. This is also a form of "destruction" of the canyon. Should we stop the rain and snow as well?

Write 'em back. Truth will always win over stuff like this.
Gman

Tom "Dummass" Reinberger

For one the dunes have always been open and are being closed. Not the other way around and no one expects the Algodones reserve to be opened. Azuza is about the size of 8 foot ball field while in comparison to the rest ot the San Gabriel Range and habitat area is likely less than 1 percent.

Must be nice to be a writer jockey with no first hand experience.

Thats the fact jack... and PS both areas were open when Clinton was in office and not closed and reopened when out.

Heather thanks, but you need to write a letter back, coming from someone who lives in the area and goes to Glamis is the best thing... Give them the truth...

Its not real hard to write these letters when you can use "copy and paste"

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Do It In The DUNES!
ARE YOU AWAKE YET???

So is this guy saying that our OHV's made all this sand? What an ass hole!

The bad thing is that I have written to the "Letters to the Editor" of the San Gabriel Valley tribune many times regarding various stories of off-roaders abusing natural resources and such. The problem is they will not publish a letter that might upset their target audience (which obviously includes environmentalists). Most of the media is so one-sided on these issues. I wonder what would happen if someone could take these reporters out to the dunes and on a ride. I am sure this has been offered hundreds of times with no takers because they would rather report negative about off road activities than have a positive opinion about them.

Heather, Does that TINY paper have any competetors? If so I'd say try writing them

Obviously an elitist who wants all the public land around him to be his own private playground. I would'nt be surprise if he owns a monster truck and is waiting to have the river bottom to himself

Bluesky,

First, I am not a guy, and second you are making prejudiced assumptions about me. You have no idea who I am. I have read various threads containing your posts, and some (most) of them I disagree with, but I have never personally attacked you because everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion, and I respect that.

Now, can you tell me why you make the generalization that off-roaders think they are elitists and want the land all around them as their private playground? Why do you think it is that the dunes to the north of the highway are untouched? If we thought everything around us was our own private playground, wouldn't we have gone in there by now? No! We respect the fact that it is a no vehicle area and we stay out of it.

Most off-roaders do not fit the stereotype that you have given them (there are a few exceptions to every group of people). We do not run down animals and laugh when we kill them, we avoid them, after all they are living breathing beings. We do not run over bushes, plants, weeds, flowers, we go around them or stop by them to observe their beauty. We respect the land.

Do all Pro-lifers blow up abortion clinics killing not only all of the fetus' they are trying to protect, but the mothers and doctors? Of course not.

Do all PETA people spit on and throw bottles at people who are wearing fur or leather? Of course not.

Do all environmentalists go around stealing and disabling anything that could potentially harm the environment? Do they all send life threatening letters to heads of logging corporations? Do they all become one with nature by living in a tent and not showering but once a month? Of course not.

Stop the stereotyping, the only thing it accomplishes is ignorance.