Ed Shadle had went 515 mph amongst the North American Eagle on the Alvord straightaway, and Kitty O’Neil went 512.7 mph in that loc...
Ed Shadle had went 515 mph amongst the North American Eagle on the Alvord straightaway, and Kitty O’Neil went 512.7 mph in that location inwards 1976 inwards the SMI Motivator, which I simply covered in https://shadymaster.blogspot.com//search?q=once-upon-hollywood-there-was-as
However, feeling that the surface of Alvord was besides soft for over 700 mph, Shadle chose Diamond Valley Playa, a dry out lake bed almost 25 miles due north of Eureka, for supersonic speed runs.
Of course, the other places that are lesser known than Bonneville for that score of runs is Black Rock, Nevada, where Burning Man happens, together with the Nevada State Route 160 nigh Pahrump where Koenigsegg simply went 277.9
Thurst SSC officially broke the audio barrier 21 years agone when accelerating to 763.035 mph at Black Rock, together with all the same trying to teach funding to run inwards the Kalahari Desert of South Africa for the Bloodhound SSC.
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/team-leaders-death-doesnt-end-quest-for-land-speed-record-in-nevada/
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/thrill-seeker-gets-ok-to-try-for-land-speed-record-in-nevada/
By the way, the Environmental Assessment asking to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/nepa/92024/128254/156103/20171218_NAE_Land_Speed_EA_FINAL.pdf shows that the alone considerations for using a lifeless dry out lake bed, that the the States Govt labels "an expanse of flat, dried-up land, particularly a desert basin" where in that location is NOTHING, non fifty-fifty H2O or grass, all the same has to move judged against the imagined needs of the corking sage grouse
To minimize or avoid potential impacts to fish, aquatic invertebrates, wildlife, special condition species, migratory birds, raptors, together with corking sage-grouse. Hard to believe the govt is this stupid, but in that location you lot convey it, on a govt document.
. Not that ANY are on the dry out lake, but, you lot know... govt regulations:
• American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 (42 USC 1996)
• BLM Shoshone-Eureka Resource Management Plan, every bit amended (2002)
• Bald together with Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940, every bit amended (16 USC 669-668d)
• Clean Water Act of 1977 (33 USC 1251 et seq.)
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, together with Liability Act of 1980(42 USC 9615)
• Diamond Valley Weed Control District (NRS [Nevada Revised Statutes] 555.202)
• Eureka County Master Plan, every bit amended (2010)
• Eureka County Water Resources Master Plan (2016)
• Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management, every bit amended (1977)
• Executive Order 11990, Protection of Wetlands (1977)
• Executive Order 13045, Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks together with Safety Risks (1997) which you'll remember, wasn't a element they assessed when the FBI killed all the kids at Waco.
• Executive Order 13112, Safeguarding the Nation from Impacts of Invasive Species (1999)
• Executive Order 13186, Responsibilities of Federal Agencies to Protect Migratory Birds (2001)
• Federal Land Policy together with Management Act of 1976 (Pub.L. [Public Law] 94-579)
• Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (16 USC 703-711)
• National Environment Protection Act of 1976 (42 USC 4321)
• National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, every bit amended (16 USC 470 et seq.)
• Nevada together with Northeastern California Greater Sage-Grouse Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment (2015)
• Resource Conservation together with Recovery Act of 1976 (42 USC 6901 et seq.)
• Safe Drinking Water Act of 1977, every bit amended (42 USC 300f et seq.)
And here's an thought of how varied the American Indian Religious Freedom Act is:
Traditional social activities of import to the Western Shoshone include pino nut gathering, edible together with medical constitute gathering, hunting together with fishing, together with spiritual/ceremonial practices. Such sites of importance include, but are non express to, existing antelope traps; certainly mount tops used for vision questing together with prayer; medicinal together with edible constitute gathering locations; prehistoric together with historic hamlet sites together with gravesites; sites associated amongst creation stories; hot together with mutual depression temperature springs; fabric used for basketry together with cradle board making; locations of stone tools such every bit projectile points together with grinding stones; toolstone quarries; hunting sites; effort social club locations; locations that of consistent pino nut harvesting together with ceremonies; boulders used for offerings together with medicine gathering; stone shelters; together with petroglyph locations; together with tribally identified TCPs.
None of which are on the desert alkali flat. However, if they were, the govt would all the same seat an stone oil pipeline through, but they wouldn't let dry out lakebed racing.
Anyway, it's fascinating to read the govt study which spells out every plant, soil sample, all 23 birds, fish together with critter that mayhap could move inwards the area. HOW anyone e'er gets an stone oil drilling functioning going, which WILL pollute the area, is a mystery to me
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