Oct 6, 2023 | 10,000+ Project, Action Alert, Aircraft, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Fight for Every Inch, Lost Trails Guidebook, Moab, Mountain Biking, National Park Service, Overlanding, Save Moab, SXS, Utah
The picture above is the Taylor Canyon Overlook located at the end of a route that the Bureau of Land Management lovingly refers to as Route 1026B. It is one of the 317 miles of trails that will be closed by the final travel plan that the BLM released for this area...
May 16, 2023 | BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, Fight for Every Inch, Mountain Biking, Overlanding, Rock Climbing, Snowmobile, SXS, Uncategorized, Withdraw the Rule
Proposed changes to FLPMA by the Bureau of Land Management pose a massive threat to our public lands and current uses of these lands. While recreation, mining and grazing are all recognized uses of BLM lands, the rule would designate conservation as a use on par with...
May 12, 2023 | Action Alert, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, ATV, BLM, California, Colorado, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, Fight for Every Inch, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Link, Moab, Montana, Mountain Biking, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Overlanding, Pennsylvania, Rock Climbing, Snowmobile, South Carolina, South Dakota, SXS, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Withdraw the Rule, Wyoming
The Bureau of Land Management recently proposed a new rule to FLPMA to prioritize conservation and landscape health on BLM managed lands. This rule proposes prioritizing conservation on BLM land through a new scheme of selling “conservation leases.” This...
Apr 14, 2023 | Action Alert, BLM, Fight for Every Inch, Link, Withdraw the Rule
Although the official deadline for public comments have passed, you can still submit a comment to continue to build strong opposition to this rule. Commenting before the deadline gives you legal standing but with a proposal of this magnitude the BLM should not stop...
Aug 25, 2022 | Fight for Every Inch, Press Release, Utah
SALT LAKE CITY – Today, the BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC), filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah against President Biden’s unlawful designation of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. BRC is joined...
Jan 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
This week President Biden traveled to California to designate the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla National Monuments. While he had planned to announce the monuments at a ceremony in Palm Springs, this dog and pony show was canceled due to forecasted severe weather. This...
Jan 7, 2025 | ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Fight for Every Inch, Off-Roading, Overlanding, Snowmobile, SXS
At first glance, National Conservation Areas (NCAs) and National Monuments may seem like distinct land designations. The key difference lies in the process of their creation: National Monuments are established by presidential proclamation under the Antiquities Act of...
Jan 2, 2025 | Action Alert, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, Idaho, Mountain Biking, Off-Roading, Overlanding, SXS
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a scoping letter for a proposed geothermal lease sale of 50,126 acres in Idaho managed by the BLM. This lease sale will affect areas that are popular for outdoor recreation near Grandview, ID. The proposal outlines...
Jan 2, 2025 | Action Alert, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, E-bike, Map, Montana, Mountain Biking, Off-Roading, SXS
The Billings Field Office in Montana is accepting comments until January 2, 2025 for the Cottonwood Travel Management Plan. This area is just north of the Wyoming border and south of towns of Bridger and Wade. It has long been a popular destination for OHV use and...
Jan 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
SALT LAKE CITY – Today the Bureau of Land Management released its final decision for the San Rafael Swell. The plan was released at 3:12 p.m. on New Years Eve, and it announced the closure of 665 miles of off-road routes in one of Utah’s most popular landscapes...
Dec 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
As we brace ourselves for the onslaught of messages from anti-access groups that opening public lands up for oil and gas leasing is a “sell-off” of our public lands, we want to remind everyone that we’ve had to fight hard during the last 18 months to...
Dec 28, 2024 | Fill Lake Powell, Legal Update
Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and the areas surrounding Page, Arizona will likely continue to require focused attention from our team. Like Moab, this area regularly draws the attention of those who want to limit access to this area. There has...
Dec 20, 2024 | Action Alert, National Monument, North Dakota
Oppose the Maah Daah Hey National Monument Proposal The Maah Daah Hey National Monument proposal aims to designate nearly 140,000 acres of public land in western North Dakota as a national monument. This sweeping designation would include parts of...
Dec 20, 2024 | Legal Update
We weren’t planning on covering the EXPLORE Act in the 12 Days of Legal Updates series, because it wasn’t clear if it would survive the lame duck session of Congress. This is a substantial piece of legislation that passed the House of Representatives unanimously...
Dec 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
One of the first executive orders signed by Joe Biden was Executive Order 14008, which called for federal agencies to lock up 30% of our nation’s lands by 2030. It would be difficult to find an organization that has closed tracked all the different ways that agencies...
