Comment on FR Doc # N/A

Firstly, The Oceano dunes vegetation is important to the agricultural industry in California. For example, it is regularly tapped for new and hardier strains of strawberries. We can't tell the damage we are doing to our own diet down the road when we so dramatically screw with this ecosystem. The plant life here should be maintained. I don't know how we can expect the OHV to protect plant life in the dunes when they have lost in local court for going after vegetative dunes themselves when they feel it improves their access. I watched ATVs and dune buggies riding in vegetative dune, mixed in with the more law abiding riders, last week by typing Oceano Dunes into google and browsing through the youtube videos. Have we checked their ranger trucks for round-up? Nothing is more sacred to them than the right to plunder the dunes thunderdome style. Also, while the following words are not original to me. They speak my thoughts better than I would have been able to on my own. Please heed them as my personal opinion. Some say that the economic benefits to killing this endangered species (and the dozens in the ecosystem that depend on it that will also go extinct) is worth it. However, the Economic study attached is based on the Cal Poly economic study that is greatly overestimated because it includes gasoline purchases (among other flaws). The study that should have been considered is Dean Runyan who does all tourism studies for all counties in the state. Dean Runyan does not include gasoline purchases, since only a few cents on the dollar stays in the county. For 2006, Cal Poly says $75 million came in from the ODSVRA. Dean Runyan says $23 million (for all campgrounds in SLO County combined, both state and county). Neither considered what it cost us to subsidize the noisy, polluting, dangerous invasion; and the elimination of the other kind of tourism, where people stay in motels and eat out. Eco tourism is much more lucrative. In 2006, the County brought in $1 billion in tourists dollars overall, mostly from people who want a beach for a beach and not a highway. The few who do make money at the ODSVRA are the atv rental businesses. Grand Avenue has an astonishingly high rate of failed businesses that are deceived by the traffic counts that fail to mention that the traffic does not stop. Pier Avenue looks like a war zone. Killing endangered plants does not help our economy. Pismo Beach got rid of the vehicles off its beach and the bed tax went up 10% the next year. No merchant wants the vehicles back, though they were terrified business would suffer if the beach were a safe beach for pedestrians. The air pollution (particulate matter) downwind of the ODSVRA is estimated to cost millions in health care, missed days of work and school, and premature death. The Central Valley, where most of the people live who come here to stir up the dust on the dunes, paid two billion in 2006 in health care costs due to the particulate matter there. Back to my words, My family knows people on Nipomo Mesa struggling desperately with lung infection after lung infection. These people have got to stop breaking the dune crust and releasing larger amounts of particulate matter than these people would otherwise deal with. Plants and people are struggling to survive this onslought.