Balancing trails, wilderness, and ATV’s in Moab’s backcountry

Aaron and Kate are joined by Laura Peterson, staff attorney with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, to talk about the Bureau of Land Management’s recently finalized Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Plan. The plan will guide land management decisions for a 300,000-acre landscape to the north of Moab for years to come, and will help protect cultural sites, riparian habitat, and the experience of non-motorized recreationists while allowing for motorized recreation on more than 800 miles of dirt trails and routes.

News

* BLM Releases Plan that Finally Protects Labyrinth Canyon and Surrounding Public Lands – Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

* Bennet, Senate Colleagues Push to Modernize Oil and Gas Bonding Requirements on Public Lands – Office of Michael Bennet

* The state of tribal co-management of public lands – High Country News

* Cox calls BLM decision to close Moab off-roading routes ‘blatant federal overreach’ as state files legal challenge – Deseret News

* Map of Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Plan – Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Credits

Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

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Music: Purple Planet

Featured image: Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance