Dear fellow race enthusiasts,
      We are still in the process of obtaining a special recreation permit for the off road race in Paisley. Where we stand at this time we feel that we are approximately 40% toward getting the race permit approved. We have recently received communication from BLM about the progress of our race permit.
      BLM is currently working on the court ordered Lakeview RMP Amendment. This is a multi-million dollar amendment to the Lakeview Resource Management Plan
that has time lines associated with it that must be followed. In order to complete the RMP amendment, BLM needs to have a wilderness inventory update completed for the entire Resource Area. This is the largest landholding in the state of Oregon that BLM has. Even though the wilderness update is complete for the proposed CODRA race area, there are still a lot of areas left to be completed before the RMP Amendment can proceed and these are taking much longer than anticipated. BLM is still also in the process of completing the Environmental Assessment, and Wilderness Inventory for the entire Lakeview District. The date of completion of this task is not known at this time.
      Unfortunately our race project is not the only project proponent that is going on this time. BLM has had difficulty getting through other proposals because of higher priorities and workload as well. They will get to the CODRA race EA and finish it as soon as they can. We don’t have any time lines at this point. We expect that there will be breaks in-between working on the RMP amendment where BLM can work on the CODRA project.
     Also, since the Cal 200 incident BLM has additional concerns related to this incident that will need to be addressed. We have these issues covered!
    
      So what does all this mean? Well, in short at this time we at CODRA have decided that it is in the best interest of all parties to postpone the Paisley 400 race until 2012.
This will give BLM and CODRA the time to have all that is needed to be completed for an event such as this magnitude. We really regret having to do this, yet again, however there is still too much unknown about the status of obtaining the race permit to keep thedate for this year. We feel that it is in everyone’s best interest to postpone the race one more year. This will ensure that all is prepared properly on BLM’s end and give us the adequate time to complete our logistics and planning to put on a successful event for you and all interested parties.
     We will continue with this process until we have our race permits in hand. Then we will celebrate with you all in having the best Desert Race Oregon has ever known.
     We thank you for your continued support in this process. We will supply updates on Race Dezert forums and via email as we know more. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact us via email at: codraracing@gmail.com
Sincerely:
CODRA
Jared Ford, Kevin Hescock