When will BLM understand that sometimes the best management of a desert area is to leave it alone?
(For urban and eastern tenderfeet, BLM means Bureau of Land Management.)
Absolutely, once the desert crust (possibly thousands of years old) gets compromised (broken, removed, dozed) the dirt underneath will blow away with the slightest wind.
A lot of people look at a desert and see nothing but lifeless land, it is anything but lifeless.
bob