SALT LAKE CITY – Last week, the BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC), filed a motion for summary judgment in its challenge to President Biden’s unlawful proclamations expanding the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This lawsuit—which has been...
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Articles: Legal Update
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 3: Labyrinth Rims, UT
This fall the Bureau of Land Management released a draft plan to close over 420 miles of world-class off-road routes near Moab in the area called Labyrinth Rims and Gemini Bridges. This was one of the most absurd proposals we've seen to close public land that is...
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 4: SOUTH FORK WALLA WALLA, OR
WHO WILL BUILD THE ROADS? Instead of building roads the Bureau of Land Management is indefinitely blocking homeowners from accessing their homes in Oregon. South Fork Walla Walla had experienced significant flooding. Portions of an access road that had been used...
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 5:STANISLAUS NATIONAL FOREST, CA
Legal Challenge to Stanislaus National Forest Snowmobile Plan We are partners with the Sierra Snowmobile Foundation in the most important legal challenge to affect snowmobiling since our fights to keep Yellowstone open for snowmobiles. This case continues to work its...
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 6: Potential Recreational Changes for Flaming Gorge
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area spans the border of Wyoming and Utah. As one of the reservoirs in the Upper Colorado River Basin, the water it holds plays an integral role in not just recreation but water levels in other reservoirs as well. Flaming Gorge...
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 7: Keep Massacre Rocks Open For Recreation
Massacre Rocks, ID The off-road trails around Massacre Rocks near American Falls, Idaho were a favorite destination of Clark Collins, the late founder of BRC. In 2011, the BLM started a planning process that would close almost all of the routes in this area. In...
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 8: Dispersed Camping Closures
Land Management agencies are increasingly working to close public land to open, free dispersed camping. BlueRibbon Coalition has continued to fight for your access to responsible dispersed camping experiences on public land for many years. Here are a couple camp sites...
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 9: Black Canyon Corridor, Arizona
Today (December 15) BlueRibbon Coalition filed an appeal to the Black Canyon Corridor Plan in Arizona. While BRC and allied groups were able to improve this plan to include several important rock crawling routes, the final plan still closed ~58% of the routes in the...
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 10: Moab Noise Ordinance Case
This year we have partnered with 11 ATV outfitters who are BRC Members in Moab to challenge oppressive ordinances passed by the local government to put them out of business and restrict motorized access to public roads in Moab. The OHV community in Utah was successful...
Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 11: Tonto National Forest Plan Objection
Twelve Days of Legal Updates: Our Twelve Biggest Fights and Twelve Big Reasons to Support BlueRibbon Coalition this Giving Season In September 2022, the Tonto National Forest in Arizona released their final updated plan for the National Forest. The Arizona State...









