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5 Environs 1 (1980-1981)

handle is hein.journals/environs5 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 Volume 5, Number 1 December, 1980 ENVIRONS, a non-partisan environmental law/natural resources newsletter pub- lished by King Hall School of Law, and edited by the Environmental Law Society, University of California, Davis. Designation of the employer or other affiliation of the author(s) of any article is given for purposes of identification of the author(s) only. The views expressed herein are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the University of California, School of Law, Environmental Law Society, or of any employer or organization with which an author is affiliated. Submission of Comments, Letters to the Editor, and Articles are encouraged. We reserve the right to edit and/or print these materials. Editor-in-Chief Michael Endicott Senior Editor Woody Brooks Content Coordinator Ginny Cahill Editorial Coordinator Barb Malchick Production Manager Anne Frassetto Financial Managers Robert Goodrich Gail Klein Art Dee Hanlon Staff Judith Andress Brad Benning Wally Burton Billy Davies Mark Ginsberg Lisa Haage Jay Long Clancy Nixon Laurie Snyder Wendy Thomson Ken Turner Eric Woychik Special Acknowledgement Harrison C. Dunning Faculty Adviser Copyright C December 1960 UCD Environmental Law Society 0 the CALIFORNIA DESERT PLAN In the eastern half of Southern California, stretching from the Mexican border in the south to Death Valley in the north, lies a vast expanse of unbroken desert. Totaling over 25 million acres, this desert comprises one-fourth of the land area of California. Far from being the wasteland that the label connotes, the California Desert is a land rich in beauty, in natural resources, and in cultural heritage. As with all public lands, use conflicts have inevitably arisen in the desert. But the desert is unique in that the support systems upon which life depend are fragile and easily disrupted by human interference, thus requiring special care. The U.S. Congress recognized this and man- dated the development of the California Desert Plan to guide the management of the desert into the next century. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act In 1976 Congress passed the Federal Land Policy and Manage- ment Act (FLPMA) for the purpose of determining the management future of 470 million acres of public lands throughout the western states managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the Inte- rior Department. Of the California Desert's 25 million acres, 12.6 mil- lion come under the authority of BLM. In FLPMA, Congress stated that the California Desert environment is a total ecosystem that is extremely fragile, easily scarred, and slowly healed; . . . and its resources including certain rare and endangered species . . . and numerous archeological and historic sites, are seriously threatened by air pollution, inadequate Federal management authority, and pressures of increased use. (43 U.S.C. 1701).

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