Vehicle tracks also passed close enough to other rare plants, and could have caused underground root damage.
call me crazy, or uneducated, or maybe worse, but I'm just a car guy. I'm not an ecologist, or herbalist, etc. I don't care that a rare weed got killed. It's only found in Death Valley - ergo, no one ever heard of it, will ever know it existed, no one will ever go to see it, or even look it up.
Since it only exists in one place, well, yeah, it would be nice to not kill it while off roading in the middle of no where, but is the planet going to miss that weed? Nope. It's not a tiger, a whale, a forest in Brazil, or something that matters to an ecosystem, the survival of bees, or moles.
It's a damn plant, and not a plant that matters in any way, but the game of trivial pursuit " what's the name of the sand dune plant in Death Valley?"
Why not have an understanding that the desert between the Pacific, and the midwest, is there to be used in any damn way that anyone can figure out how to enjoy a moment in it. Solar farms, off roading, making more Mt Rushmore size art statues, or using a really big method to create zen gardens like the Japanese rake/sand/rock tranquility experiences, or colored sand mandalas the scope of which would please Tibetan monks. Why not? There are probably hundreds of thousands of square miles of useless sand and rock. No one seems to have ever figured out what to do with sand, I say because of all the sand left all over the planet that hasn't been used yet. It's all there waiting for a great use. Until then? Lets drive dune buggies on it! Lets race the Baja 1000 on it! Lets climb the rocks, make petroglyphs like the strong ones did in prehistoric times, lets make land speed racing areas, dry lake sailboat areas, Burning Man events, concerts, and Nazca line art that tells the astronauts we applaud them
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