Book Description

The Land Tenure Adjustment (LTA) Project stems from concern of the Bureau of Land Management (Barstow and Ridgecrest Resource Areas, California Desert District, Riverside, California), Department of Defense (Air Force Flight Test Center - Edwards Air Force Base and George Air Force Base) and San Bernardino County, California. Of principal concern to the three agencies is the current checkerboard landownership pattern over the 2.8 million acres of the LTA Project Area. This pattern of landownership, where ownership changes every square mile, promotes leap frog development and is incompatible with the San Bernardino County General Plan to promote logical and orderly development of the county, Current landownership pattern precludes effective management of ground resources on public and private land and presents management problems with respect to existing DoD air space corridors.