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...
Dec 6, 2023 | Action Alert, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Fill Lake Powell, Link, Motorboat, Mountain Biking, National Park Service, Overlanding, Personal Watercraft, River Raft/Kayak/Canoe, Rock Climbing, Snowmobile, SXS, USFS
In October, BlueRibbon Coalition has been engaged on a public rule making proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yes, you read that right. You might be asking what the SEC has to do with BRC’s mission of protecting recreation access to public land? The...
Dec 1, 2023 | Action Alert, BLM, Map, New Mexico
Bureau of Land Management in New Mexico has proposed the next step, the environmental assessment (EA) to the Gila Lower Box Special Recreation Management Area. In 2022, BRC and it’s members participated in the scoping public comment period. BLM has since...
Nov 16, 2023 | Moab, Press Release, Save Moab, Utah
BIG NEWS! Utah Representative John Curtis introduced the Historic Roadways Protection Act in the House of Representatives this week. We’ve been encouraging everyone to support this legislation to save our Moab trails since it was introduced in the U.S....
Nov 11, 2023 | Action Alert, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Moab, Utah
Moab Field Office is accepting public comment through November 20, 2023 regarding the Mud Springs (Spanish Trail) mountain bike and e-bike trails just south of the town of Moab. The preferred alternative will allow class I e-bikes on the routes and keep 28 dispersed...
Nov 11, 2023 | Action Alert, BLM, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Texas
Texas only has a small portion of BLM land – approximately 12,000 acres. This area is designated as a special recreation management area just north of Amarillo. The BLM is accepting public comment through November 13, 2023 to gather public feedback on ebikes on...
Nov 10, 2023 | Action Alert, BLM, E-bike, Image, Link, Utah
Not far from Grand Staircase-Escalanate National Monument and Bryce Canyon National Park, Garfield County Utah is hoping to add mountain bike, e-bike and singletrack courses for public use. The BLM is accepting public comment until November 13, 2023 for the Garfield...
Nov 9, 2023 | Action Alert, Arizona, California, Colorado, Fill Lake Powell, Nevada, New Mexico, Personal Watercraft, Utah, Wyoming
Bureau of Reclamation is accepting public comment for the near term Colorado River Operations. In April of 2023 BOR released its original alternatives and the public provided feedback. Many of our members sent in comments. The BOR ended that public comment period due...
Nov 6, 2023 | ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Idaho, Mountain Biking, Overlanding, SXS
While everyone was focused on the terrible closures in Moab, the Bruneau Field Office of the BLM in Idaho released their final plan for the Canyonlands East area near the Owyhees. This area includes the eastern reaches of the Owyhee Canyonlands south of Boise. In a...
Nov 6, 2023 | Action Alert, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Map, Montana, Overlanding, SXS
BLM has started scoping for the Cottonwood Travel Management Plan in Southern Montana near Bridger. An initial route evaluation has been completed. 320 miles of routes are being analyzed and BRC wants to ensure that the route report is accurate and that the...
Oct 30, 2023 | 10,000+ Project, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Fight for Every Inch, Legal Update, Moab, Mountain Biking, Press Release, Rock Climbing, Save Moab, SXS, Utah
Today, the BlueRibbon Coalition, joined by the Colorado Offroad Trail Defenders and Mr. Patrick McKay, challenged a decision by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to close 317 miles of some of the nation’s best off-roading trails near Moab, Utah. If allowed to stand,...
