HQ Commentary by Don Amador
The Recreation HQ believes the article published today by
the SacBee regarding how certain Park-related non-profits is really on target.
July 25, 2012, SacBee Article on Fear Striking
Park-related Non-Profits
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/23/4653238/state-park-groups-fret-over-secret.html
I believe the CA Parks Foundation and other park-related
non-profits should be afraid of public outrage and blowback from the OHV
community because of their Sustainable Parks Initiative that was based on a
lie. That plan had as its “foundation
block” the complete evisceration of the OHV Program and its grants program to federal
and county partners.
I personally believe that certain non-profits are in fact
nothing more than stealth branches of the Department of Parks and
Recreation. This scandal proves that abuse
by Parks of the OHV Trust Fund has become institutionalized and has been an
accepted way of doing business.
Further proof of OHV being nothing more than a political
football to be kicked around by green groups and their friends at DPR was also
highlighted in a 2005 audit of the program by the Bureau of State Audits. *They only scratched the surface in my opinion.
That report had a lot to do with OHV leadership pushing
for a complete overhaul of the OHV program that was set to expire on Jan. 1,
2008. That effort in 2007 resulted in
SB742, the new CA OHV Program.
BRC News Release on OHV Being a Political Football (with
a link to the 2005 BSA Audit)
http://www.sharetrails.org/news/2005/12/14/ohv-groups-call-disbandment-ca-ohv-commission
Just where this ends up is uncertain. But be assured that this issue has lot of
riders fired up and let’s hope we can turn that energy into something positive
for OHV.
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