Jul 14, 2023 | Action Alert, Arizona, Colorado, Dispersed Camping, Fill Lake Powell, Freedom Echoes, Image, Link, Motorboat, National Park Service, Nevada, Personal Watercraft, River Raft/Kayak/Canoe, Utah
The Bureau of Reclamation has announced the scoping period as they update the 2007 Interim Guidelines for the Colorado River Management Operations. The 2007 Interim Guidelines creates the planning direction for the BOR to determine how much water to release...
Jul 12, 2023 | Action Alert, Arizona, Dispersed Camping, Fill Lake Powell, Motorboat, National Park Service, Nevada, Personal Watercraft, River Raft/Kayak/Canoe
The National Park Service for Lake Mead National Recreation Area has released an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Low Water Access Plan. Hundreds of comments were submitted at the end of 2022 in opposition to several of the proposed concepts which would have...
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...
Feb 10, 2023 | Arizona, California, Colorado, Fill Lake Powell, Motorboat, National Park Service, Nevada, New Mexico, Personal Watercraft, Utah, Wyoming
Just one day after six of the seven states submitted their proposal to the Bureau of Reclamation, California snuck in under the BOR’s January 31 deadline and submitted its own to address systemic shortages for use of the Colorado River. In its plan, that...
Feb 10, 2023 | Arizona, California, Colorado, Fill Lake Powell, Motorboat, National Park Service, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming
On January 30, six of the seven Colorado River basin states jointly released a proposal to the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) in response to that agency’s January 31 deadline to avoid facing possible preemptive federal intervention. Technically, it’s a...
Dec 12, 2022 | Fill Lake Powell, Legal Update, Motorboat, National Park Service, Nevada, Personal Watercraft, River Raft/Kayak/Canoe, Uncategorized
The National Park Service is requesting comments to address low water levels at Lake Mead in Nevada. The NPS is looking at three options for how they should manage marinas, campgrounds, and recreation infrastructure as they adjust to low lake levels. One should note...
