Mother Road National Monument
Alliance proposes establishing Route 66 national monument
Interesting idea which I doubt will pick up enough steam to go anywhere. Hope to see it happen though, more for reasons of history than for simply containing the growth the the 29 Palms Marine Waste, err, I mean base. Had the pleasure of doing a mile based travel guide at http://www.themotherroad.com about 8 years ago ( looks like the Daily Presses servers have been hacked and they don’t know it yet ), got to talk to alot of people at the Mojave River Valley Museum, Goffs, and and the Needles Regional Museum. There are a lot of stories along this route, alot of history, not only of Route 66 but also of early California prior to 66. Is well worth preserving what is left of it.
‘ wish this wasn’t necessary. I tend to side with the citizens of the East Mojave when it comes to restrictions on public land, the government should stay out. Unfortunately it seems these days the only way to protect yourself from one government agency is to align yourself with another. What’s worse? Restricting land so nobody can get on it– filling the quite desert nights with bomb blasts, interrupting bighorn sheep migrations with acres of solar panels — blotting out beautiful quite vistas with power lines, hauling in billions of tons of LA crap to dump in a beautiful serene environment, or putting up placards, gates, and drawing in another 100,000 casual tourists whose noisy city habits should stay in the noisy city. They all suck, but I’ll take the last above any of the others. I can point out to a tourist that the beauty of this place is it’s quite expansive sereneness. It’s kinda hard to do that with a freight train or a missile.