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The U.S. Forest Service is taking public comment on a proposal to create a nationwide Environmental Assessment regarding post-wildfire recovery work. Right now, NEPA delays can stretch for years, leaving dangerous trees, erosion, damaged roads/trails, and burned timber …
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing the Silver Branch Vegetation Management Project in the Ottawa National Forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The public can submit comments on the draft environmental assessment though January 21, 2026. This is a vegetation...
Earlier this year, we shared an infographic which illustrated how unbalanced public land restrictions have become. There are 640 million acres of public lands, and when you add up the acreage amounts of all the restrictive land designations, our multiple use lands...
Montana legislators are proposing to release 3 of the 44 Wilderness Study Areas which have been in place since 1977. As one of the States with the most restricted land in the country, releasing the highly-restrictive, never-ending WSA is long overdue. Tell your represen…
A long-running bill dubbed the ‘America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act’ would radically reshape how millions of acres of Utah’s public lands are managed. Disguised as conservation, it would ban most recreation, silence local communities, and hand control to distant s…
Some of BlueRibbon Coalition’s biggest wins don’t happen in court—they happen at the table. Through the U.S. Forest Service objection process, BRC protects motorized access, dispersed camping, and recreation opportunities by pushing for better decisions before lit…
Over the past year, while we challenged restrictive travel plans and national monuments in court, another equally important battle was unfolding behind the scenes, one fought not on trails or in courtrooms, but in the complex world of federal rulemaking. For the...
For far too long presidents have been abusing the Antiquities Act to bypass congress and lock up millions of acres of public land. Below we review BlueRibbon Coalition’s efforts to stop the abuse & how national monument designations adversely affect recreation.
This past year has been nothing short of transformational for the movement to expand responsible access across America’s public lands. Nowhere is that momentum clearer than our community’s fight to open trails for Class 1 e-bikes. BlueRibbon Coalition and its...
Earlier this year, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to either rescind or revise the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Throughout its 25 years of existence, BlueRibbon Coalition has fought...