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<br />B-13 <br /> <br /> <br />0027S3 <br /> <br />Mr. Macias. These meetings of the Advisory Committee, it is my <br />understanding because I receive notices of them, I am assuming that <br />even though it is Advisory Committee, these are, when they meet, open <br />to the public right. There's wide distribution of information as <br />to where the meetings are going to be held and the times and so <br />forth. <br /> <br />Mr. Pfulb. Our mailing list is now approaching 6,000. The last <br />meeting which was in San Diego and in connection with that meeting a <br />full day was used as a recreation seminar and panelists were invited <br />from all recreation user groups. Two members of the Advisory <br />Committee, the two members representing outdoor recreation, actually <br />took responsibility for organizing this. Contacted people in all <br />the recreation organizations, selected them, which was something in <br />itself. We could never have done it. BLM could never have done it <br />and come out whole. The way members of the public could do it and <br />come out whole. Because even the selection of individuals to be on <br />panels in this emotional sort of thing is, if we do it, it is unaccept- <br />able, but it was very successful. It was a full day seminar, we had <br />very good participation, dialog by the public. That's the kind of <br />a role that we hope to have the Advisory Committee members play. <br /> <br />Mr. Schroeder. Are the Advisory members compensated? <br /> <br />Mr. Pfulb. Only expenses, no they are not paid. <br /> <br />Mr. Raetz. Are you planning to include any of this area in your <br />lease rental program? <br /> <br />Mr. Pfulb. You mean insofar as offering lands for disposal? <br /> <br />Mr. Raetz. Yes, lease or rent. <br /> <br />Mr. Pfulb. Certainly part of the, or one of the components of <br />the plan has to address the what we would say is the lands component. <br />The status map shows the area where the private lands are concentrated <br />everything you see blank is public land. We would be addressing it <br />I feel this way, in an allocation, in making a recommendation as to <br />how to cooperate with say the State of California and say the <br />Southern Pacific who owns all this checkerboard land, the State of <br />California owns all this section 16 and 36 and other major landowners, <br />who also have to plan their own strategies for the future. Since we <br />will be addressing which areas of the desert have resource values <br />that we should manage in a certain way, it will suggest then areas <br />