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Show Gus safari to Death Valley in 2905 limited fo 96 poroono Velma Patterson submitted this article from her ORV magazine. It is a reprint from several magazines. and mountain areas they so aggressively campaigned to close back in the "70s." Citizens are urged not to write or agitate the govern- ' ment or they may be forced to discontinue the Satuday night nature movies on the assumption that they may only serve to excite the general gen-eral public. Can you imagine this type of a society with such restrictions re-strictions and stifling way of life or loss of freedom? Well, look around you, it's already begun. Think about it! What are you doing about it? Editor's Note: The following is an article submitted by Jim Adams from DesertDy-namlcs DesertDy-namlcs of Santa Fe Springs, C alif . of a preview of future government and city programmed pro-grammed news releases of the year 2005. TIME: February 3rd, 2005 PLACE: Death Valley The government announced today that reservations are being accepted until February Febru-ary 15th, for the annual bus tour of Death Valley. The tour will consist of two buses bus-es with a total capacity of 48 passengers per bus. Reservations Res-ervations are on a bid basis with the highest bidders receiving the reservations. Last year, the annual tour grossed $48,000.00 or an average of $500.00 per person per-son for the one day trip. Since 1985, the entire desert des-ert and mountain areas have been off limits to the general public. All citizens are, as you know, confined to their area of occupation or resident resi-dent city and permission to leave the area must be obtained ob-tained by a written request at least one year in advance. The request will be considered consid-ered and reviewed by the "Environmental and Social Impact Committee." If the request is granted, it may be some two years before . permission will be granted, due to the backlog. In the meantime, once a month the Government's "Historical Nature Society" is showing free movies each Saturday night in the colos-seum, colos-seum, the Forum and the Rose Bowl, for those (especially (es-pecially the young people) who have never been out of the city. Also on display are 4 -wheel drive and other vehicles, ve-hicles, tents and other camping camp-ing equipment once used by citizens prior to the total land closure which followed the "Restricted Land Use Acts" of the 1970's. The Sierra Club has filed a petition requesting per- mission to hike in the Griffith Grif-fith Park to view and observe ob-serve the birds and squirrels squir-rels but it has been denied. They have been advised to observe these natural wonders, won-ders, with all other citizens, at the Saturday night G.H.N. S. movies. The Sierra Club has become very vocal In wanting to reopen the desert |