From David Holcberg at the Ayn Rand Institute:
After closing off 12 million acres of California land to human use and enjoyment in the last 30 years–allegedly to protect desert tortoises, horned lizards and scarab beetles– environmentalists are now actively seeking to close California’s Imperial Sand Dunes to bikers and off-road drivers. The alleged reason this time: to protect milk vetches. Once again, environmentalists are showing their desire to sacrifice man’s needs and happiness for the sake of animals, plants and wilderness. Once again, they are showing whose side they are on, and it is not humanity’s.