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A point-level analysis of nearly 110,000 federal wildfire records testing where fires ignite relative to roads, what causes them, and whether fires that start near roads are held to smaller sizes than those in roadless and wilderness country.
Articles: Operation Accessible
The Babylon Fire burned more than 107,000 acres of Utah’s Abajo Mountains, and the Manti-La Sal National Forest now wants to repair the roads and trails it damaged. BRC supports getting this recovery work done fast. Submit your comment by 11:59 PM MST on November 3, because anonymous and late comments give you no standing.
The National Park Service’s North Rim recovery plan for Grand Canyon National Park would turn Fire Point Road into a hiking trail inside the park, and all three concepts include it. The plan also explores whether to retain, reduce or eliminate commercial stock use and limits winter recreation to non-motorized use. Sign the petition before comments close November 6 at 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time.
Presidents have closed millions of acres to motorized use through national monument designations, with no vote in Congress. The LANDs Act (H.R. 10669) would limit new monuments to 640 acres and send larger withdrawals to Congress. Tell your members of Congress to support it.
BLM Director Steve Pearce signed the All Americans Outside Initiative in Moab and said it is personal, because his brother has used a wheelchair for 50 years. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance protesters showed up anyway, but the Outdoor ADA would lock that in by law instead of leaving it to one administration. Contact your representatives and tell them to support it.
More than 45 million Americans live with a disability that can depend on motorized access to reach public land. BRC took six advocates to Capitol Hill to make that case directly to lawmakers backing the Outdoor Americans with Disabilities Act. Meet the advocates who made the trip and hear why they made it.
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 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 Timber and Plaskett fires are burning across the Big Sur country of the Los Padres National Forest, the same ground the Wildfire Risk Reduction Project was written to defend with fuel breaks near communities. For three years Los Padres ForestWatch has worked to cut that plan by 83 percent and force it back into years of new review, and the community-protection work still is not built. Read BRC’s full report in the NEPA Jail tracker and help us hold anti-management campaigns accountable.
Nearly 14,000 acres of free dispersed camping outside Zion National Park are set to close under the BLM’s SR9 decision. BRC has filed a formal appeal with the Interior Board of Land Appeals, built out of the agency’s own record and impact statements from our members and supporters. Here is what we argued and how you can support the legal fight.
The Bears Ears recreation restrictions were real, they were written down, and almost none of them had been enforced yet. That gap is what lets groups defending the 2025 monument plan claim it never restricted recreation. See what the plan actually said about hiking, OHV, mountain bikes, camping, climbing and dogs across 1.36 million acres of public land.