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...
Sep 19, 2023 | Press Release
Pocatello, ID – Today BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) announced the pre-print release of the Lost Trails Guidebook Volume 2. The first volume of the Lost Trails Guidebook featured 30 trails in Utah that are at risk of closure as part of an ongoing planning process from the...
Sep 19, 2023 | Action Alert, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Fight for Every Inch, Gallery, Image, Link, Map, Overlanding, Snowmobile, SXS, Wyoming
The Bureau of Land Management has opened public comment for the Rock Springs Resource Management Plan until November 16, 2023. This plan will dictate how 3.7 million acres of land is managed and accessed for decades to come. This area is larger than the states of...
Sep 15, 2023 | Action Alert, ATV, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Idaho, Overlanding, SXS, USFS
The Nez Perce and Clearwater National Forests are undergoing supplemental travel management. The travel management planning is a result of a court decision from 2022. Friends of the Clearwater sued over the decision to allow motorized use on certain trails,...
Sep 7, 2023 | Action Alert, ATV, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Fight for Every Inch, Link, Map, Moab, Mountain Biking, Overlanding, Snowmobile, USFS, Utah, Western Phoenix Project
Forest Service has released the draft forest management plan and environmental impact statement for the Manti-La Sal National Forest. This forest covers three areas in southern and central Utah and a small portion of western Colorado encompassing a total of 1.4...
Aug 31, 2023 | Action Alert, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Image, Link, Map, Mountain Biking, Overlanding, Rock Climbing, SXS, Utah
The BLM has released it’s draft plan for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah. BRC engaged its members in 2022 during the scoping period. Comments are accepted until November 9, 2023. The BLM will hold meetings to answer questions at...
Aug 28, 2023 | Arizona, Fill Lake Powell, Motorboat, National Park Service, Press Release, Utah
The National Park Service released their latest economic impact report, which analyzes the economic benefits created by National Parks in the gateway communities that they serve. The low water years at Lake Powell and Lake Mead were nothing short of a wipeout that...
Aug 23, 2023 | Action Alert, Arizona, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Fight for Every Inch, Image, Link, Lost Trails Guidebook, Map, Mountain Biking, Overlanding
The BLM in Arizona has released the environmental assessment for the Table Mesa Recreation Area and comments are due August 31, 2023. BlueRibbon participated in the scoping phase at the beginning of 2023. This plan gives the options of the No Action Alternative:...
Aug 18, 2023 | Action Alert, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike
The BLM in the Tuscon Field Office has released the Middle Gila Environmental Assessment which analyzes four different alternatives. Comments are due August 31, 2023 BRC and our members engaged in scoping in early 2023. During this first step in the process, there...
Aug 17, 2023 | Action Alert, Aircraft, Arizona, ATV, BLM, Dirt Bike, Dispersed Camping, E-bike, Fight for Every Inch, Legal Update, Mountain Biking, Overlanding, Rock Climbing, SXS, Utah
Yesterday BlueRibbon Coalition filed its notice of appeal in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in its challenge to President Biden’s expansions of the Grand Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. We were disappointed that the District Court in...
Aug 15, 2023 | Fight for Every Inch, Legal Update, Press Release, Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Last Friday evening, on the heels of the Biden Administration abusing the Antiquities Act to set aside another million-plus acres of Western land, a federal judge in the District of Utah granted the Government’s motion to...
