Guys and gals, kid's, anyone with a little skin in this game...I've been on the front lines of the land use battle in the past. Both Machelle and I finally gave up...now we do the best we can to educate, volunteer our time doing something tangible (DRV desert clean ups for example), and follow the Tread Lightly principles of off pavement travel.
The problem as we saw it in our area (SoCal)...it's easy for the Center for Biological Diversity, the Steal the Area...I mean Sierra Club, etc, to set up a booth in front of a grocery store and show tire ruts, destruction of trails, litter, etc and blame it all on off-pavement vehicular travel. They get the signatures from the sheeple that put "measures/public opinion" inputs into action. When public meetings are held, the "closure is management" folks are united, have a couple thousand signatures on some unread petition...the off pavement crowd (that bother to show up) is fractured into the special interest groups...and we have them all in SoCal...adventure travel, rock crawlers, sand cars, desert racers, (cars, side by sides, quads, motorcycles), Glamis/sand guys, etc...each group has their own agenda and can't get along well enough to join together for a common cause.
One of the easy interweb causes for me to irritate damn near everybody with is REI...lots of cool gear...ABSOLUTELY ZERO SUPPORT FOR ANY OFF PAVEMENT VEHICULAR TRAVEL. I get it, I purchased an REI branded tent that met my needs quite nicely back in the day. Then came the good old interweb and we could all see what everyone else was doing, and I discovered REI's politics...been on my REI rant ever since...generally losing that battle. They have cool gear, meets the need, etc. To humor myself I put duct tape across the REI logo on the tent!
There will be enough open ground to satisfy my needs for the years I have left in this game whether it is on this side of the fence or in Baja. As off the shelf 1000HP electric "off roaders" become the thing, I fear that access to public lands will become more and more restricted. Roger Norman proved that you can't keep the tires on a trophy truck with 1000 horsepower through the desert...too much wheel spin shredded the tires. Give a guy 1000HP and a warranty...come on...even a die hard hyper miler Prius driver would have to give the throttle/rheostat a squeeze to see what it will do.
Can't find the video of that run.
Now...desert racing...land use...same sentence...certainly. Desert racing in the US is so highly regulated that I no longer found it to be enjoyable as a logistics guy. For a chase/crew dog, our access to get to a broken race car became so limited that it became too frustrating...I could see my broken race car, but due to BLM regulations I couldn't go help them. Oddly, these days we are usually at a stationary pit with BFG for the Baja races where mobile chase crews are almost a requirement.
<pot calling the kettle> Get out from behind your keyboards, interweb petitions, etc...find an organization/club/group/random collection of people that hate each other, what ever...and actively DO something to help the cause.