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Ok, I am going to jump in here even though I haven't been to Dumont in the last 14 months. I left duning not because of the LEO but partly because I had been dealing with the BLM in a political manner for the previous 10 years. I saw a lot of good relationships built with BLM and when the LEO's got a little heavy than a phone call to the area manager brought results and things calmed down. On the big weekends they were bringing in LEO's from Vegas (BLM Vegas is very anti- off road) and there were some heavy handed issues. This was resolved fairly quickly and life at Dumont continued. However when the new manager things started to change, her attitude is not one of cooperation with duner's and I believe she manages Dumont with little to no thought of what the duners want. That is my opinion from being on the sub-group with her since her arrival in Barstow. As to your case Blown72, you have to own what happened. It's illegal to have a weapon in Ca. There are very few CCW holders in Ca. and they have very strange rules about seperating clips from weapons and you than add in the weed and wonder why you may have gotten attitude? You never know why or what a LEO see's as Probable cause. Maybe someone outside your trailer when he drove by was taking a leak next to the trailer or there could be any multitude of reasons for him to poke his head into your trailer. But when he see's a weapon, weed and a bunch of guys in an enclosed area and probably cannot see all your hands his sense of danger goes through the roof. It sounds like your trying to blame BLM for your lack of common sense and having an exposed weapon and weed in plain sight kinda supports the case for the LEO's. If you were smoking the weed and he approached the trailer it is going to smell like weed. It's in my opinion on you and your crew in this case. Think about it from his view for a second, he for what ever reason decides to check out something that caught his attention, he approaches a trailer , see's a weapon and weed lying in plain sight and his closest back up is 60 miles away and he is out manned several to one, what else would you expect him to do but put on his hard case attitude to make sure you guys were aware he was in control. It's a law enforcement way of staying alive. You can give up on the dunes and blame it on BLM but you need to look in the mirror to see who's responsible for what happened. I gave up duning after 40 years for a lot of reasons but none of them was because of Law Enforcement. if one of you had or have been hurt at Dumont I will guarantee you will be very happy to have them on scene helping you out. The needs at Dumont have slowed down because traffic has slowed down, there is not the rush that was a few years ago and to be blunt, the serious family duners are glad that's it back to the way it used to be before everybody and their brother re-financed there home, bought expensive OHV's and trailers and went to Dumont and thought there was no rules. If you had quit back then, I am sure no one on this forum would blame you. If you decide to quit now due to one or 2 run in's with LEO's than I have to lean on it's more to the real story than your admitting. So no one on here is judging you and you have to make up your own mind on it, but as for me it would appear from your post that you owned that one.

Firearms,alcohol,Marijuana... Really??? I can only guess where thus goes.

Here's another one for your folder on the field manager in Barstow Terry. I called the office on Thursday to try and see if I could enter on a day pass on Saturday. NO one answered the phone and I was told to leave a message. I did but never got called back. The purpose of my day trip was to find some of Bob's friends that knew him from his many trips to Dumont over many years. I knew many of them didn't go on here or read facebook and would appreciate hearing about his unexpected death. I went over early Saturday morning and stopped at the fee station to plead my case to not have to pay the full weeks fee when I was only going to be there a couple of hours. got several "sorrys" but "that is the policy". One of the ladies at the gate recognized me from my many trips that always include a trip down from our perch on the bluff to say hi to all of the workers I and Bob knew. I asked where one of the regulars was that I know and, he knows me and was told he was working the late shift and was told he wouldn't be "authorized" to let me in on a day pass or a visitors pass that I have seen issued before for short visits. There were comments by BLM personnel made, that they really should have a day pass at Dumont like they do at another BLM run OHV area from the Barstow Office. I could go on but it came to the point that I paid the $40 bucks for entry into Dumont and was gone in less than 4 hours after finding and contacting 7 people that appreciated my efforts. I sure hope for Katrina's future management assignments she learns that there are grey areas in life and business and not everything should be based on what is in a book or are always black and white. When exiting I stopped and asked for the person at the gate to mark the time I left on my receipt and he wouldn't do it. Manage by fear, come on now!