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📣 Good News! The Labyrinth Canyon/Gemini Bridge

📣 Good News! The Labyrinth Canyon/Gemini Bridges travel plan is now in effect! Yesterday, an administrative appeals board rejected three petitions that sought to delay implementation of the Bureau of Land Management’s Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Plan Decision. The petitions were filed by the state of Utah and several motorized recreation groups.

“We look forward to seeing the BLM begin to implement its balanced travel planning decision in the Labyrinth Canyon and Gemini Bridges area,” said SUWA Staff Attorney Laura Peterson. “The BLM’s plan takes a thoughtful approach to managing recreation in this popular area, one that will protect the stunning Labyrinth Canyon river corridor and critically important riparian ecosystem while leaving thousands of miles of dirt roads and trails open to motorized use in the greater Moab area. As the appeals move forward, SUWA is confident the plan will withstand scrutiny and has moved to intervene to defend BLM’s decision.”

See link in bio for more background on the plan.

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Your support paired with SUWA’s deep expertise is a powerful combination—one that ensures that the preservation of the outstanding wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau is not just a mission statement, but a vision for the future that we’re working towards every day.

Please consider a donation to support SUWA's work on #GivingTuesday. Visit suwa.org/donate or tap link in bio. Thank you!

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📢 Calling all dark sky enthusiasts! 🌌 On Tue

📢 Calling all dark sky enthusiasts! 🌌 On Tuesday, December 5 from 7-8 pm PST join "Slickrock and Dark Skies: Two Views of Utah Wilderness” from anywhere with an internet connection!

This presentation is co-sponsored by Oregonians For Wild Utah and Washington Friends of Wild Utah. Attendees will learn about the wonder and beauty of the Colorado Plateau day and night with a focus on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Presenters: Stephen Hinch (Author/Photographer) and Lisa Stoner (Utah State University/Colorado Plateau and Basin & Range Dark Sky Cooperatives).

Free, but please register in advance using the link in our bio.

Capitol Hill Update: Last week, Rep. John Curtis (

Capitol Hill Update: Last week, Rep. John Curtis (R-UT-3) introduced H.R.6396, the companion to S.3148, Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) bill that would prohibit the BLM from implementing the recently finalized travel management plan for the Labyrinth Canyon area (pictured is Bowknot Bend and the Green River) near Moab, and has implications for future travel plans in Utah.

As we’ve said many times before: this much-needed travel plan for the Labyrinth Canyon region will guide land management decisions on a 300,000-acre landscape for years to come. It will help protect cultural sites, riparian habitat, and the experience of non-motorized recreationists while allowing for motorized recreation on more than 800 miles of dirt trails and routes. The BLM has taken an important step in balancing the recreational use of the landscape (both motorized and human-powered) and the conservation of ecological and cultural resources.

Rep. Curtis’s bill would buck the support of local businesses and local elected officials that support this plan. It also ignores the balanced approach to recreation and conservation taken by the Bureau of Land Management, the agency who prepared this plan. Representative Curtis’s bill makes it clear that he would rather see out-of-control motorized use prioritized over all other public land uses, regardless of the damage caused.

In short, H.R.6396, just like S.3148, is anti-conservation, pro-resource destruction, and dead-on-arrival. Read more about the travel management plan for the Labyrinth Canyon area using the link in our bio.

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