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Articles: Nick Pucci
Falling water has shut down boat ramp after boat ramp at Lake Powell, and the National Park Service has now approved new low water launch ramps at Bullfrog and Hite to keep boaters on the water. BlueRibbon Coalition members submitted hundreds of comments backing the project. Read what the approval covers and what still needs attention at Glen Canyon.
The Amargosa Conservancy wants 186,000 acres of BLM land around Ash Meadows locked up as a National Conservation Area, and a second group is already campaigning for a full national monument on the same ground. NCAs restrict motorized travel from the day they are created, as riders found at Steens Mountain and Beaver Dam Wash, and agencies keep tightening for decades after. Tell your elected officials to oppose the designation before a bill is written.
The Umatilla National Forest wants to thin, treat, and reintroduce prescribed fire across roughly 40,000 acres of the North Fork John Day Ranger District, and it will use 156 miles of existing forest road to do the work. A working road system and a fire-resilient forest go together, and this project proves it. Submit a comment in support of the 54 North Project before the September 25 deadline.
The BLM wants to formally designate ten backcountry airstrips in southeast Utah, the same dirt strips that have been around since the 1950’s and allowed search and rescue teams into canyon country when someone gets hurt. Anti-access groups have flooded the record with over 2,500 comments to shut them down. Tell the BLM you support keeping these airstrips open before comments close September 3.
The Equal Access to Justice Act was written to help ordinary Americans fight an overreaching government. It now bankrolls the litigation programs of anti-access organizations that stalls forest health work and locks up access on public lands. The FEES Act would put limits on those payouts, and your members of Congress need to hear that you support it.
The Forest Service’s decades-old Travel Management Rule that decides where you can ride across 380,000 miles of national forest roads is finally getting a revision. BRC backs the Forest Service’s plan to drop the minimization standard, recognize e-bikes, and fix the maps riders can’t trust. And the Forest Service wants to know what routes should be reopened. Comments are due September 23, 2026.
California’s Coastal Commission spent years layering permit conditions at Oceano Dunes until they became the foundation for phasing out OHV recreation entirely. Now NOAA is reviewing whether the agency overstepped its authority, and riders have a direct chance to weigh in. Submit your comment through BRC’s tool before August 22 and tell NOAA the Commission has not honored public access.
The USDA has opened the public comment period on rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, a chance to hand management of 44.7 million acres of national forest back to local foresters. BRC is urging riders, hunters, and anyone tired of watching forests burn to weigh in. Add your comment before the September 21 deadline.
Hug it, litigate it, and watch it burn. Oregon Wild’s serial litigation narrowed and stalled the Mt. Hood fuels work designed for this landscape, and sixteen days before the Grasshopper Fire started they served notice to sue over four more projects. The fire has since burned 77,000 acres and closed 50 trails through the end of the year, and BRC is documenting the pattern in its NEPA Jail tracker.
Grizzly populations in Yellowstone and the Northern Continental Divide recovered and expanded for three decades with the existing forest road network in place, which is the opposite of what road-density models predicted. BRC is asking the Fish and Wildlife Service to write the revised 4(d) rule around that record instead of around formulas from the early 1990s. Submit your comment before August 17.