Nevada Black Rock Desert.

[golddigger65]

Here is some bad news for those that enjoy Nevada's Black Rock as do I. BLM is again overstepping their bounds, they are warning of BR closing to all prospecting and rock hounding and banning most off road travel. They will have to arrest me, I won't stop for these commies.

 

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[tamrock]

Just tell em you don't have your ID handy and give a fake name if they ask. I've been confronted twice now by rangers who were curious about why I was wandering around looking at the ground. They use binoculars from a distance and I guess I was looking like I lost my marbles to them out walking around in concentric circles. Both times they seemed rather nervous in confronting me, as if they were ready to act if I pulled a weapon on them. Ain't nothing fun to do anymore without some rule attached to it.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

What is the claimed justification for the closure?
Jim

 

[golddigger65]

No reason given other than to protect the land.

 

[Kray Gelder]

I looked at the BLM website, specifically about Black Rock. There is no mention of what you described. Quite the opposite. Welcome to all.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

We were out there twice last summer. No problems.
Jim

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

I have no doubt that this rumor is based on some fact.

Just give it some time. This stuff is in the works for years before they spring it on people, or it becomes widely known.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Just look at the recently completed nationwide FEDERAL directive to close national forest lands to unauthorized vehicular travel.

Black rock desert...people drive wherever they please..camping wherever they please. BLM is step 2

They will lie to achieve the goal that has been in the works since the 1960’s.
I listened to our local forest supervisor tell our county board of supervisors that all they wanted to do was get the roads in use on a map and that NOT A SINGLE road would be closed. Thousands of miles of existing roads were legally closed, with the outraged public being reassured that the law enforcement would be directed to provide educational guidance whenever possible rather than issue citations. Which means they politely tell you to get out or find yourself in federal court.

That lady is still in charge even after the truth became known. That made me so angry to sit and listen to that!

 

[T.C.]

The BLM doesn't want you out there picking up artifacts. Some of the nicest Crescent in the country come from the Black Rock. Now, on the other hand. If you have enough money, you can hold a pagan festival and desecrate a national treasure. Don't kid yourself, I've seen videos of the garbage left behind after Burning Man.