CALIFORNIA - BLM Schedules Additional Open House Meetings for West Mojave Route Network Project
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These were truly a sad affair. The apathy has become SO RAMPANT, there was literally ONE member of the public present who wasn't a part of any organized group, and less than 10 from organized groups, with two of us from the BLM's own Desert Advisory Council.
I attribute much to fatalism of the new paradigm: management by decree. The agency takes years to develop a plan, enviros participate with lackluster (based on usually being outnumbered by access folks who don't always display the most civility) and then sue the agency once the plan is signed, having determined there are better odds of influencing the plan in the legal system than in the rough-and-tumble democracy of the administrative one.
I have been so frustrated with the way INTELLIGENT personnel in the state-level Bureau have failed to stand behind the science that opposes industrial scale solar projects and stand UP to Washington politics that I am now rooting for the enviros to do what State-level bureaucrats lack the professional integrity to do.
I attribute much to fatalism of the new paradigm: management by decree. The agency takes years to develop a plan, enviros participate with lackluster (based on usually being outnumbered by access folks who don't always display the most civility) and then sue the agency once the plan is signed, having determined there are better odds of influencing the plan in the legal system than in the rough-and-tumble democracy of the administrative one.
I have been so frustrated with the way INTELLIGENT personnel in the state-level Bureau have failed to stand behind the science that opposes industrial scale solar projects and stand UP to Washington politics that I am now rooting for the enviros to do what State-level bureaucrats lack the professional integrity to do.