Blog Archives for Utah

By Bethanie Walder - October 7, 2009    I spent the last two days at the Western Governor’s Association (WGA) Wildlife Council (WGWC) meeting in Helena.  The meeting focused on progress toward implementing a resolution for improving wildlife connectivity and linkage zones across the western states.

By Laurel Hagen - June 2, 2009    The Paria Canyon ATV protest (explanation) has been getting a fair bit of coverage in the Salt Lake Tribune and elsewhere over the past few weeks. Some samples:  

By Laurel Hagen - May 13, 2009    Slideshow

By Laurel Hagen - May 13, 2009    Slideshow

By cathy - May 8, 2009    If you've been following our Related News, you will know that this Saturday, between 500 and 1,000 ATVs, Jeeps, and other off-road vehicles plan to illegally drive up the riverbed of the Paria Canyon in a BLM wilderness study area near Kanab, Utah. They're doing it to protest BLM plans to actually enforce keeping ORVs out of this wilderness area near Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

By Laurel Hagen - May 1, 2009    In the wake of Jeep Safari and the onset of tourist season, more stories and letters have appeared in the Moab newspaper that display the effects of marketing an area as an off-road vehicle destination: *** SITLA asks for county’s help in curbing damage to mountain lands

By Sarah Peters - April 14, 2009    Yesterday, the Tenth Circuit upheld a lower court decision that Kane and Garfield Counties were wrong in their assertion of rights to multiple roads within the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. 

By Laurel Hagen - March 27, 2009    Working in the Utah wilderness and countryside, I constantly run into places that have been damaged by off-road vehicle use. I put together this video in response to a recent study

By Franklin Seal - November 20, 2008   There’s been a lot of news this week about the Utah Bureau of Land Management’s recently unveiled oil and gas lease sale that includes parcels directly adjacent to Arches National Park (for update on recent developments see post script below). The National Park Service, local residents, regional environmental groups and even the local city and county governments have raised threats of legal protests or serious concerns.

By Laurel Hagen - November 12, 2008    From an article in the Deseret News: *** National Park Service officials worry that if the oil and gas industry is allowed to drill on land next to two national parks and a national monument in Utah, the companies may need new roads that will be unwanted leftovers once the oil and gas are gone. The concern is that those roads will become new entry points into the parks, creating potential access and land-use headaches for park regulators.