Clean-Dezert

Clean-dezert exists to unite the desert racing and off-road community in an ongoing effort to provide aid in the beautification and maintenance of our desert resources.
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Mini Cleanup 5 // Stoddard
Sunday Dec 7 Canceled

Barstow Cleanup 2008
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2008 Mini Cleanup 3
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2008 Mini Cleanup 2
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2008 Mini Cleanup 1
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Desert Cleanup 18
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Ocotillo Wells Earth Day '07
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Calico Cleanup 2007
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Camburg Cleanup 2006
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friday, november 14, 2008

Johnon Valley Meetings

Due to the low turn outs during the mini clean-ups. Clean dezert has decided to focus our energy in a new direction. We would like to ask everyone to schedule their time to try and make one of the following meetings regarding the Johnson Valley land closures. We all need to show our support for the land. Many of us being racers would be devistated if they closed all of Johnson Valley. This is exactly what they are proposing to do. We would no longer have camp rock road, or bessimer mine race courses open. The same courses that we use for our beloved MDR night race. So please find a meeting you can attend and be there to do your part.

We will also be trying to set up carpools from OC, IE and possibly SD for anyone who is interested.

The Meetings will be as folllows:
1. Wed. December 3, 2009, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Twentynine Palms, CA;
Location: Twentynine Palms Junior High School, Hay's Gym,
5798 Utah Trail, Twentynine Palms, CA;

2. Thurs. December 4, 2009, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Victorville, CA;
Location: Hilton Garden Inn Victorville,
12603 Mariposa Road, Victorville, CA;

3. Fri. December 5, 2009, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Ontario, CA.
Location: Convention Center, 2000 E. Convention Center Way, Ontario, CA.

Sorry if this is an inconvience for anyone. However this is something we strongly believe in trying to keep open. While cleaning the desert is a great way to do our part. We feel this is something that NEEDS to be done. Please show up and speak your mind.

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monday, november 3, 2008

Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween. I just wanted to thank Safari Gard with this picture of our Troops in Iraq supporting our Clean-Dezert and having some fun for Halloween. Keep up the good work.

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monday, october 27, 2008

Save Johnson Valley

Many of you know Johnson Valley from the MDR Night race, or from going on desert trips to Bessimer Mine Road or Camp Rock Road. Well these areas are in serious need of attention. The Marines want to expand thier base from 29 palms and take over these areas. Now is our time to step up and respond and let people know we are not okay with this...

Please do your part and print and send in this sheet to the address marked on it.

Please write down "I demand the BLM deny the Withdrawl Application the US Marine Corps have submitted for Johnson Valley and I opposed and westerly expansion of the base." Throw in how much you use and love Johnson Valley and anything else you feel relevent

Or you can also visit http://www.pirate4x4.com/letters/ to fill it out online.

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wednesday, october 22, 2008

UPDATE: Click here to view the first set of pictures from the cleanup. More coming soon!

Well its safe to say that the Clean-dezert.org Barstow cleanup was a complete success, from the amount of people that showed up and the mountain of trash the we gathered and removed. We would like to start off by thanking everyone who came out and volunteered thier time, and also sponsors such as: FOX SHOCKS, AEM INTAKES, CAMBURG, GLASS WORKS, IRONCLAD GLOVES, RICHER RACING, DMZ FABRICATIONS, BTF FABRICATIOINS, PCI RACE RADIOS, RRP FABRICATION,DEZERT NATION and everyone else who made this possible.

We counted 232 people who registered for the cleanup and know that there were some who showed up just to help out, and didn't get in on the raffle or rides. This was a noble gesture and appreciated by those that won some of the prizes!

Everyone that showed up was extremely pumped for this event and we couldn't have been more excited by the showing. Scott and the guys from Camburg showed up with the burg bus on Friday, and the guys from Richer racing and DMZ fab all getting there early to support the cause, thanks guys! With 20-30 people showing up Friday night, we knew we were going to have a good showing but were still a little nervous to see if our effort were going to pay-off.

When we got up Saturday morning we were greeted with a line of cars, trucks, buggies, and a Unimog and they continued to show up for more then an hour. We started the cleanup a little late due to all of the people that showed up but after they headed out, it didn't take long for the junk to start piling up at the dumpsters. As has become pretty standard in or deserts there was a lot of commercial and residential trash thrown in every nook and crannie of the Barstow OHV We did some spotting on Friday and Ray volunteered to to play rover to look for some of the worst area to give some assistance finding "junk gold" as some of the volunteers were claiming it!!!! We filled six dumpster in a little over two and half hours and could have used 5-6 more! People dragged in cars, mountains of tires, refrigerators, Couches, porn, Gallons of paint, roofing materials, you name it and it was taken from our deserts!

After the cleanup we prepared the food provided by Camburg Engineering and prepared for the raffle while the last few truck were coming back to camp! It was really cool to watch people break there backs all day, and then see some of those same people get to win some of the cool stuff that got donated. I personally noticed that the couple who came down from the Friends of Johnson Valley both won stuff, as well as one of the guys from the CORVA crew that come out.

THANKS to all of you for the support.

On Saturday night we did the usual desert fire-pit meet and greet that was topped off by the band COSTELLO from Huntington Beach playing on the back of Camburg Toter home. These guys were fun to watch and have a great sound, you should check them out if you get a chance. Thanks guys! You can check out there album on iTunes.

Sunday morning was a slow one as you could imagine, as everyone was pretty spent after the cleanup and staying out by the fire or a feverish game of beer-pong so it got off a little later then we expected (but this was a racing related event, so nobody was shocked!) We have quite a few trucks show up and would like to thanks the guys that gave all the volunteers a lap around the course! Dan Vance, Charles and Rob Anderson, Dave Leepr, Andy (green explorer) James hooligan, and everyone else who donated rides in thier vehicles.

Clean-dezert.org would like to also thank John Kavanaugh from the Bureau of Land Management for the assistance keeping this organized as well as helping to get stuff sorted out. We hope to have a long beneficial relationship with the BLM so that these events can continue to take place and having a guy like John who appreciate our efforts can only help that relationship!

Here are a list of winners from the raffle.

$1000 fox shocks- Tyler Shaw

KC lights- Billy Goodwin

Glassworks fenders- Andrea Pathiakis

AEM Intake-Gary Bosse

AEM Intake- Gary Grandt

BTF Links- Pat Schulthies

RRP Light Bar-Greg Dale

RRP Light Bar- Pat Ostlund

DMZ $300- Jeff Agnew

DMZ $150- Kirsten Sullivan

DMZ $150- Billy Goodwin

Trailglow HID- Corry Lewis

Richer Racing $300- Anthony Iwami

Richer Racing $200- Eugene Jackson

Richer Racing $100-Erik Medina

RSP Shock prep- Phil Robinson

RSP Shock valve-Lindsay Clowes

PCI Race Radio-Jen Rice

Threat Motorsports Light Rack-Billy Goodwin

PirateLab Bumper- Brad Beintema

There were tons of DVDs and shirts being raffled off as well. Almost everyone walked away with something at the event.

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wednesday, october 15, 2008

Here is a run down of the events for the day and the times.

Saturday

8:30-9:00 Sign ups, first 100 People get a free set of Iron-Clad Gloves. Everyone participating will need to have a Clean-Dezert wristband which will gain access to BBQ, and demo rides sunday.

Noonish we will be doing the BBQ with burgers and hotdogs donated by Camburg. Water has been donated by Fresh & Easy

2:30-3:30 We will hold the raffle for everyone who participated in the clean-up. This is our way to say thank you for helping keep our deserts clean and open

5:00 The band Costello will be performing while people unwind and relax from thier day of good deads.

Sunday

9:00 Demo rides will be started. Wristbands and helmets required for all people participating. Waivers must also be signed.

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tuesday, october 7, 2008

Directions for Barstow Clean-up

Here is a map that shows directions on how to get to the 2008 Barstow Clean-up.

Coming north on the 15, exit Outlet center drive and turn right.

We will be located right inside the OHV area.

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tuesday, september 30, 2008

Clean-Dezert at the Expo

This weekend is the biggest Offroad Related Expo in the country coming to the Pomona Fair Grounds. Come join Clean-Dezert.org for a weekend of fun. We will have a booth set up with our good friends www.Dezertnation.com. Clean-Dezert will have shirts and stickers for sale to help provide money for supplies for our big clean-up Oct. 18th. Please stop by and say hi and show your support.

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friday, september 5, 2008

Clean-dezert is putting on another clean-up this year in the barstow area. Its will be held the weekend of Oct 18th. and 19th in Barstow Ca.

Saturday morning we will have sign-ups for the clean-up and start the clean-up at 9am. Free BBQ for everyone (Thanks to CAMBURG Engineering and specifically Jerry Zaiden!) who comes out and volunteers, as well as a free raffle for everyone volunteering. Clean-dezert.org would also like to invite you to bring the kids out to help out and learn why it's important to protect our desert have some popcorn and play in the desert! We will have some gloves being donated but just incase bring a set to be on the safe side.

So far we have had tremendous success in getting stuff to raffle off from the following people, without each of your help this wouldn't be possible! We will continue to contact manufacturers and suppliers until the event as well!

In addition to Camburg providing the BBQ along with OFF-ROAD MAGAZINE and DEZERT TV reporting on the event we have the following sponsors providing our raffle items:

EVENT PRESENTED BY:
CAMBURG
Fox Shocks=$1000 Gift Certificate
KC Lights= 3 sets of 8" lights
Glassworks Unlimited=Set of front fenders
IronClad Gloves=100 sets of gloves to the first 100 People.
AEM Intakes=2 sets of AEM Brute force intakes and 2 panel filters
SPONSORS
MDR=1 free race entry
TRAILGLOW=pair of 9" HID/custom engraved lenses.
RICHER RACING=$250 Gift Card
RRP FABRICATING=light bars, shackles, stickers
SUD PRODUCTIONS=DVD's from SUD
FLATWHEEL PRODUCTIONS=RPM DVD's
DMZ FABRICATION=Shirts, stickers, gift certificates
BTF FABRICATIONS=Weld it yourself link kit
DEZERT NATION=Shirts, stickers, gift certificates
RDC/DP=Desert People DVD's & RDC T-shirts

And hopefully lots more to come!

Saturday evening we will have the a surf style rock and roll band playing while everyone unwinds from the day. Tequila worms will be performing their surf style rock and roll in the afternoon and into the evening so make sure you stick around to check it out!
Sunday morning we will be giving demo rides in race vehicles for volunteers as well. As of right now we have several cars, trucks and SxS's panning on coming out (barring any catastrophic malfunctions between now and then). If you have always wanted to ride in an off-road vehicle and don't have the chance too, here you go! (If you plan on going on a demo ride, please bring a helmet and googles, we have a couple extra, but may not have the right size for your head, All rides require a helmet to be worn)

Clean-dezert.org is also asking for donations towards our cause! This doesn't have to be financially, if you want to give us a trashcan or donate some gloves, have some parts laying around that some kid may be able to use (which could then be installed at your shop!) we would like to speak with you!

In addition to funding the cleanups in our local deserts Clean-dezert.org also donates 25% of the proceeds directly to CORVA Now come on people, this is a WIN WIN situation!

So for those of you who are interested in helping out with the event or looking to donate to the effort to maintain and protect our desert please go to http://clean-dezert.org and sign up! Its free, it fun, and is important!

The clean-up will be located off Outlet Center Drive in the OHV area.
From the 15N exit Outlet Center Drive, make a right onto Outlet Center Drive, then another right into the OHV dirt area. We will be located right in the front.

Sign ups will take place starting around 8:30-9:00 with the event starting at 9am.

Thanks!

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monday, august 25, 2008

T-Shirt winner

The winner of the free t-shirt raffle this month is Tommy Trego. I will be sending out an email to you for your order. Thanks to everyone who signed up and we will be doing this again in the future.

Clean-dezert

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wednesday, august 20, 2008

Aug 16th Night race.

The biggest race of the year for the 1450 class. 40+ entered and 35 off the line. Clean-dezert decided to put fencing up at the rock pile this year to keep all participants safe as well as spectators. The last thing we need is a race truck getting squirly and taking out the crowd. With the help of a couple racers we put up roughly 400ft of fencing at the rockpile, which seemed to be a big hit. It kept the spectators off the course and also made the landing of the jump open and nice.

Clean-Dezert also rounded up a group of individuals from Dezertrangers.com to place trash cans up at the rock pile since this area was going to be hosting 400+ people for the race. Travis, Carlos, Tim, Alan & Art handed out trash bags all night long, Made sure the trash cans were being used and took care of the area. While i was busy racing they took care of clean-dezert for me. I cannot thank them enough. Sunday morning I went up to the rock pile to take down the fencing and pick up the trash, however all the trash had been removed. Thank ou again guys. Job well done.

The clean-dezert race truck ended up 5th in class out of 35+ starters. We had zero problems the whole race and rand as fast as the motor would let us. Only thing holding us back now is motor.

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monday, august 4, 2008

Another T-Shirt Raffle

Here's another chance for you to win a free Clean-Dez t-shirt. Click here to enter!

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monday, july 28, 2008

July 20th Mini Cleanup Recap

Our third mini clean-up of the series was held in Barstow off of Oulet Center Drive. We showed up Sunday morning to a 40 cu roll off dumpster. The weather was perfect, not too hot for being the middle of summer.
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wednesday, july 2, 2008

July 20th MINI CLEAN-UP

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tuesday, july 1, 2008

Free T-shirt Raffle

The winner of the 1st clean-Dezert Monthly T-shirt raffle is Julie Earl. Thank you so much for participating in our raffle. Stay tuned as we will be starting another raffle soon.

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sunday, june 8, 2008

Clean-Dezert Tshirt Giveaway

Want a free Clean-Dezert.org tshirt and stay up to date on Clean-Dezert events? Sign up now to receive event updates and a chance to win our monthly tshirt giveaway.

Click here to register.

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thursday, may 29, 2008

Lucerne Cleanup Recap

Our second cleanup of the 2008 Mini Cleanup series took place at the end of Bessemer Mine Road and Soggy Dry Lake in Lucerne Valley. This was our first cleanup in this area and we weren't completely sure what to expect. Because of it's isolated location, we were confident that there would be less large refuse, unlike Barstow which is right off a major freeway.

Sure enough, the bulk of the work involved picking up stray trash stuck in the bushes near the restroom...