The National Park Service is drafting an off-road vehicle plan for the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and is proposing to legitimize and expand existing, unauthorized ORV use. Your comments could help decide the fate of this remarkable landscape.
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Tell the BLM: Protect Recapture Canyon’s Archaeological Treasures
The BLM’s Monticello field office is requesting comments on a proposal for a new network of off-road vehicle trails in Recapture Canyon. This proposed route network includes the illegal route that was constructed in Recapture Canyon in 2005.
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Preserving Utah Wilderness Could Protect Colorado’s Snow
Over at HCN’s The Goat Blog, Sarah Jane Keller reports on a new study that shows how helping desert soil could save Western Colorado’s snowpack: Southwest Colorado’s snowpack is the West’s hardest-hit when spring winds carrying tiny dust particles slam into the mountains. That cinnamon layer coating the snow means...
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Victory! Court Strikes Down BLM Richfield Land Use Plan
It’s a great day for Utah's redrock wilderness! Today the federal district court in Utah struck down significant parts of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) land use plan for the Richfield Field Office – a plan that prioritized off-road vehicle use above all else. This victory for wilderness represents...
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Press Release: Court Strikes Down Controversial BLM Land Use Plan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 4, 2013 Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981 Court Strikes Down Controversial BLM Land Use Plan BLM plan designated thousands of miles of ORV routes, placing iconic western landscapes at risk SALT LAKE CITY – Today the United States District Court for the...
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