Dunes to Stay Closed to Off-Road Vehicles
Nearly 50,000 acres of the Algodones Dunes will remain closed to off-road motorized recreation while federal agencies comply with a judge’s order to rewrite plans for protecting two endangered species -- the desert tortoise and Pierson’s milk vetch, a plant.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has ordered the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service to redo the plans, after her March ruling that earlier plans, which would have expanded off-road motoring, violated federal law.
Other sections of the dunes will remain open to riders.
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