Was Part Of The Burning Man Event In Nevada

The Bureau of Land Management wants the owners of an "art car" from Burning Man that is made from the front half of a Boeing 747 fuselage removed from government land. It has been parked on the Black Rock Desert since the event ended two weeks ago.

The Reno Journal Gazette reports that the display had been moved about 12 miles from the Burning Man site in the Nevada desert onto land managed by the Bureau. BLM acting communications chief Rudy Evenson said that the owners of the vehicle need to apply for a new permit to move the airplane since the event is over. Normally, as an art project the 747 would have been covered by the Burning Man organization's recreation permit, but that has expired.

Evenson said that given the location of the item on public land, it's legal status is its legal status is "in trespass with unauthorized use ... Bottom line is, we’re evaluating options for getting rid of it."

The plane is owned by Big Imagination Camp. CEO Ken Feldman said that they have a plan to move the vehicle to a private location near the desert. He said there are a "lot of people watching it right now" to make sure it is not disturbed or removed.

But Evenson said that the main problem is that there is no road from where the plane is not to its planned permanent home. "And that’s part of the National Conservation Area so you can’t build a new road," he said.

Feldman hopes that the plane can be moved without being disassembled and shipped in pieces by truck, which is how it arrived at Burning Man. The project took Big Imagination Camp four years to complete, and even in pieces moving the project to Burning man took closing roads and disconnecting power lines due to its size.

Evenson said that all options for removing the art car from the desert are "on the table. Obviously our preference would be for the vehicle owners to take care of it."

The Burning Man organization is required to work with BLM to return the site to its original condition, leaving no trace of the event.

(Image from file)

FMI: Source report