If you want to keep a field in the DC area, make sure you have a senator or congressman in the club. You will not win any battles otherwise. As for Oregon, with all the jumping up and down by everyone to maintain all the open space there you would think it would be fairly easy to get a flying site. Tell the city fathers you want to grow some dope alongside the field and they'll likely grant the field in a heartbeat. At least in Oregon anyway.

As for the location of the AMA when all the parks were being laid out in all the new residential areas, a better question might be where were all the members when it came time to let the AMA know what was going on? Better still, where were those same members when all the city council meetings were held? Y'all really believe that the AMA maintains a staff of thousands to run around checking each and every civic calendar?