Burning Man Size Challenged In New Appeal (PHOTOS)

By Martin Griffith, Associated Press

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A California man is appealing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s decision to increase the Burning Man festival’s attendance cap in the Nevada desert.

Christopher Brooks’ appeal of the agency’s increase in the maximum crowd size from 50,000 to 60,900 will be considered by the Interior Board of Land Appeals.

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The weeklong celebration of radical self-expression and eclectic artwork leading up to Labor Day draws tens of thousands of people from around the world to the Black Rock Desert, some 100 miles north of Reno.

Brooks, a land sailor from Cotati, Calif., suggests the event is to blame for dunes that have kept him and others such as land-speed racers from using the sprawling desert for their activities.

He further maintains Burning Man should not have been “rewarded” with the population increase because it was placed on probation by the BLM for exceeding last year’s cap, and it has not undergone a BLM-mandated performance evaluation.

“As a member of the public, my concern is that this will set a precedent for other (special recreation permit) holders to violate stipulations and be rewarded,” he wrote to the BLM. “I am asking that Burning Man stay at 50,000 people in 2012.”

Burning Man spokeswoman Megan Miller branded the claims as “meritless,” saying the dunes were not caused by the festival and organizers undergo strict scrutiny by the BLM.

“BLM conducts a whole battery of performance evaluations before, during and after each year’s event,” she wrote by email. “These evaluations include fall and spring inspections, inspection memoranda, after action reports, compliance memoranda and the recent environmental assessment itself. These documents more than satisfy BLM’s performance evaluation requirements.”

Gene Seidlitz, manager of the BLM’s Winnemucca Field Office, said he could not comment on most of Brooks’ claims because of the pending appeal.

However, he said a study by the Reno-based Desert Research Institute found the dunes on the Black Rock Desert stemmed from a variety of factors, including wind, the climate, and permitted and dispersed recreation use.

“They said the cause of the dunes was more complex. The sole nexus of the dunes was not the Burning Man event,” he told The Associated Press.

Burning Man organizers are appealing the BLM’s decision to place them on probation for exceeding last year’s attendance cap to the same federal board that will consider Brooks’ appeal.

BLM officials say they took the action after the festival drew daily crowds of more than 53,000 on Sept. 2 and Sept. 3, above the daily crowd cap of 50,000 allowed under its special recreation permit.

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  • Temple Burn

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  • Heart Deco

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  • Stargzing

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  • Flying High Over the Playa

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  • Band at the Burn

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  • black rock from above

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  • Temple of Transition

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  • The Temple of Transition

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  • My first Burn – Burning Man – 2011

    Burning Man 2011

  • Temple of Transition

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  • The Temple from Burning Man 2011

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  • Temple of Transition

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  • Temple of Transition

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • This is Burning Man, Valorie Kappmeyer

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  • Black Rock Bijou

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  • Desert Mermaids

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Desert Mermaids

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Love

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Temple Burn

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Distrikt

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Skeleton Wheel in Daylight

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Airship Victoria and Flaming Burn Barrow

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • Wakeup Calls

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  • The Temple Of Transition

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  • BMX Bike Gang in the outer Playa

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  • The Temple Of Transition

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  • The Temple Of Transition

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  • Trojan Horse rolls toward Troy

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  • Trojan Horse rolls toward Troy

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  • Trojan Horse rolls toward Troy

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  • Evening on the Playa

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  • Evening on the Playa

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  • Playa late afternoon

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  • Playa late afternoon

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  • Playa late afternoon

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  • Playa late afternoon

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  • Within

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  • Within

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  • Self-Care is Sexy

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  • Self-Care is Sexy

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  • Self-Care is Sexy

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  • To Boot

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  • Forge

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  • Lost

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  • grounded

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  • The temple.

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  • Pyroticulation Flower Bow

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  • PyroGoRound Helixes

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  • Temple before the Mountains

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  • My dad at the Pink Lotus Girls’ Installation

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  • People getting spirtualized in the Temple

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  • Waiting for a ride on the Playa

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  • Sculpture

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  • Burning Man 2011

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  • Man Burning

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  • Infected Mushroom playing at Opulent Temple camp

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  • Charon at Dawn

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  • Temple of Transition Burn

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  • Zomes on the Playa

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  • Mega bus

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  • Temple of Transisition

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  • And the wheel goes round and round.

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  • Temple at Dawn

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  • Temple before Dawn

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  • Trojan Horse 1

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  • Man Burning

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  • Trojan Horse 1

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  • Trojan Horse 1

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  • Trojan Horse 1

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  • Crowd watching burn

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  • The Temple of Transformation and Sky Harp

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/laur13honey”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/laur13honey”laur13honey/a:br /

  • On the road to the Playa

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  • Camp Question Mark

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/sarawr”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/825315-tiny.png?20091206192327″ //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/sarawr”sarawr/a:br /camp question mark 2 D West Coast Bass Culture

  • Temple Sunrise

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lev_Schlaffer”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://graph.facebook.com/509797796/picture?type=square” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lev_Schlaffer”Lev Schlaffer/a:br /

  • Octopus Art Car

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/kookychrissy2011″img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/kookychrissy2011″kookychrissy2011/a:br /Really cool octopus art car.

  • Trojan Horse

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Tyler_Cole”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://graph.facebook.com/778928614/picture?type=square” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Tyler_Cole”Tyler Cole/a:br /Trojan Horse was a large structure on wheels. It was taken out further and burned.

  • Under the Man

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  • Onward to the Temple

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  • Temple at Dawn

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  • Get Lifted

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/boice2″img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://graph.facebook.com/1523727472/picture?type=square” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/boice2″boice2/a:br /

  • best city in the world

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”macstarr/a:br /I was given a gift of flying in a plane over the burn this year. More photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippymac/sets/72157627825426626/

  • Temple at Dawn

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Elgatogo”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Elgatogo”Elgatogo/a:br /

  • This beautiful earth

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”macstarr/a:br /The playa up close. More photos of my journey at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippymac/sets/72157627825426626/

  • Pre-Burn Fireworks

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  • Our Captain

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”macstarr/a:br /The Captain of our camp art car The Emergenc More photos of my journey at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippymac/sets/72157627825426626/

  • Burning Man

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  • The Lamplighters

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”macstarr/a:br /More photos of my journey at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippymac/sets/72157627825426626/

  • A peek into homes

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macstarr”macstarr/a:br /More photos of my journey at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zippymac/sets/72157627825426626/

  • White-out

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  • How about when u sit down?

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  • More Gorgeous Art

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NickCollide”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://s.huffpost.com/images/profile/user_placeholder.gif” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/NickCollide”NickCollide/a:br /

  • The Regionals Burn

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  • The Scorpion Art Car at Sunset

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  • The Girl in the Moon

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  • self portrait nancy reynolds at burning man

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  • The Amazing Rolling Muffins

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/crazymotherfcuker”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/66815-2-tiny.png?20100521190417″ //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/crazymotherfcuker”crazymotherfcuker/a:br /The muffins multiplied each year. I don’t know how many of them are out on the playa nowadays but they were always a nice sight to see in the desert.

  • The Adult Apparatus

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/crazymotherfcuker”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://i.huffpost.com/profiles/66815-2-tiny.png?20100521190417″ //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/crazymotherfcuker”crazymotherfcuker/a:br /This is from 2005. The guys that made this hauled it on a semi from Kansas or something. A great show of dedication and creativity that provided a weeks worth of wows from the participants that year.

  • a space in the sky

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  • Drop that ghetto blaster

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  • The Man 2001

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hp_blogger_Steve Payne”img style=”float:left;padding-right:6px !important;” src=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/contributors/steve-payne/headshot.jpg” //aa href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/hp_blogger_Steve Payne”HuffPost Blogger Steve Payne/a:br /The Man 2001

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