Political Quotes

“I am happy to hear that. Nonetheless, the people that have worked so hard for this bill for so many years believe that the National Park Service is a much better, well equipped, understanding unit to be able to protect and preserve the beautiful resources of the area. Let me show you for a moment what some of those resources are. You have here Castle Peak, which is a very unique peak in the Mojave National Park. You have an unusual dune, Kelso Dunes, which is near the town of Kelso, where actually the headquarters could be in the Mojave National Washing. You have a pinyon forest in winter. You have the largest Joshua tree forest anywhere in the Mojave National Park. You also have an unusual soda lake in this national park. The park will be just an incredible place. There will be mountain ranges, dry lakes, cinder cones, badlands, washes, mesas, buttes, lava beds, caves and, as we said, one of the most complex sand dune systems anywhere. One of the reasons why East Mojave is so significant is because it is at the junction of three of the major desert ecosystems, the Sonoran, the Mojave, and the Great Basin. So its biological resources are extremely varied. I want to point out that in 1979 the Bureau of Land Management staff report found that there was no finer grouping anywhere of wildlife habitats, and that the East Mojave embodies the finest scenery in the entire California desert.”