So what happens when no humans, much less a single vehicle, are permitted on the dunes and there is still dust blowing across the farmland onto the mesa? Who you gonna blame then?
If you build next to a pig farm, you can’t ask the pig farmer to move, and if you did not see the dust before you chose to live on the mesa, you cannot expect the state and ultimately the taxpayer (you) to pay fines when the wind blows your direction.
This article appears in Dec 1-8, 2011.