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I have been active in an organization called the Friends of Jawbone [FOJ] for a little over a year now. It is an amazing group of individuals representing one of the broadest cross-sections of stakeholders I've ever encountered. At ONE table, SIMULTANEOUSLY, there are representatives of:
Federal-BLM Ridgecrest office
State-California OHMVR commission[ off-highway-motorized-vehicle-recreation]
State-Red Rock Canyon State Park
State-State Assemblyman Rex Moen
State-Leaugue of Cities
County-Kern County Board of Supervisors
County-Kern County Sheriff's Department
County-L.A. County Sheriff's Department
City-California City P.D.
as well as business representatives for
American Honda
wind energy
solar energy
geothermal energy
and user groups:
District 37 AMA[American Motorcycle Association
C.O.R.V.A.{California Off Highway Vehicle Association]
Cal 4 Wheel
Friends of Panamint Valley
Friends of Last Chance Canyon
And more amazing yet, month after month, they will sit at this table and have a frank dialogue on the concerns of the day and how to coordinate responses to them. I think it is a model organization.
Born out of a sense of frustration over illegal OHV use in Jawbone, I drafted up some language for a potential billboard and gave it to the President of FOJ, Ed Waldheim about 8 months ago. Ed's a very busy man, and I never heard another word about it since. I assumed by now that he'd just politely taken my idea to avoid hurt feelings. Boy was I wrong!
I showed up at the Jawbone Station yesterday to help clean up some language on a construction contract for them, and this is what I found!
Federal-BLM Ridgecrest office
State-California OHMVR commission[ off-highway-motorized-vehicle-recreation]
State-Red Rock Canyon State Park
State-State Assemblyman Rex Moen
State-Leaugue of Cities
County-Kern County Board of Supervisors
County-Kern County Sheriff's Department
County-L.A. County Sheriff's Department
City-California City P.D.
as well as business representatives for
American Honda
wind energy
solar energy
geothermal energy
and user groups:
District 37 AMA[American Motorcycle Association
C.O.R.V.A.{California Off Highway Vehicle Association]
Cal 4 Wheel
Friends of Panamint Valley
Friends of Last Chance Canyon
And more amazing yet, month after month, they will sit at this table and have a frank dialogue on the concerns of the day and how to coordinate responses to them. I think it is a model organization.
Born out of a sense of frustration over illegal OHV use in Jawbone, I drafted up some language for a potential billboard and gave it to the President of FOJ, Ed Waldheim about 8 months ago. Ed's a very busy man, and I never heard another word about it since. I assumed by now that he'd just politely taken my idea to avoid hurt feelings. Boy was I wrong!
I showed up at the Jawbone Station yesterday to help clean up some language on a construction contract for them, and this is what I found!
