Steve Smith has compiled a list of emblem holders in the section using past Newsletters. It may be incomplete. If so, inform Jerry Haven if you have been left off. Also include the approximate date. Upcoming scheduled trips:

July 21-23 White Mtn. Clifton/Stewart Sept 1-3 Inyo Fracisco/Ward Sept 22-23 Stirling/Hayford Stockton/Forbes Sept 29-30 Glass/Patterson Jones/Lynch Oct 13-15 South Guardian Angel Lipsohn/Hubbard Oct 27-28 Dubois/Montgomery/Boundary Smith/Ward.

NEWS

DESERT RACING FOUND EXPENSIVE The Bureau of Land Management is asking some $7,000 in damages from the El Cajon Motorcycle Club, which conducted an unauthorized motorcycle race in the Yuha Desert in December. In January the cyclists promised BLM they would rehabilitate the eight miles of track cut into the desert's delicate ecosystem. Then in April the motorcycle club changed its mind, and notified state BLM Director J. R. Penny that they weren't going to go through with the cleanup after all. Penny demanded the cyclists' $1,120 race receipts plus $5,843 in "resource damages sustained." The cyclists have until late this month to reply. Further races on public desert are banned until the club pays its fine. COALITION BACKS RAINBOW BRIDGE DECISION In Denver, a coalition of 13 national environmental organizations including the Sierra Club joined in filing an amicus curiae (friends of the court) statement with the U.S. Court of Appeals, backing a lower court decision to limit the water level of Lake Powell Reservoir to protect Rainbow Bridge National Monument in Utah. "The environmental movement is united in support of Judge Ritter's decision," said Sierra Club spokesman June Viavant. "Rainbow Bridge was guaranteed protection in 1956 by the Colorado River Storage Project Act. In backing the court decision, we're saying that the 1956 commitment must be enforced. The integrity of our entire national park system against reservoirs and other destructive projects is at stake here."

However,

SETBACK IN RAINBOW BRIDGE CASE - Appeals Court Grants Stay By a vote of 2-1, a three-man panel of the US. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver has granted a stay of execution of Judge Willis Ritter's order, which has caused the level of Lake Powerll to be lowered during the past two months. Attorneys for the government had argued that so much water has been let out of Lake Powell already that the maximum height the reservoir could reach this year is no higher than the previous maximum of 3,266 feet, elevation.

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