from the BRC if you are interested in keeping our roads OPEN

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Update on Our Fight to Save Moab

For decades, Moab’s trail system provided access to world-class riding, camping, and exploration across southeastern Utah. In recent years, sweeping land management decisions have eliminated that access by closing hundreds of miles of routes that supported generations of recreationists and local...

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And if you would want to keep public lands open and fight the anti-access groups

Rebalancing Public Land Restrictions for Access

Public land use isn’t balanced… but not in the direction most suggest. We are having to fight constantly to keep access to less than 1% of the 40% (or 0.4%) of our public lands that are currently open for motorized recreation. To conclude our 12 days of Legal Updates series, we want to share...

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Keep it open

Help Reopen 1.2 Million Acres of Public Land - Support Congressional Review of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Resource Management Plan - BlueRibbon Coalition | Defend Your Ground

In their final days the outgoing administration finalized a Resource Management Plan for 1.87 million–acres of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument that dramatically restricts long-standing recreation and traditional uses. Congress is now pursuing a Congressional Review Act resolution...

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Help keep our Historic Roads OPEN folks

Urgent: Senate Committee Set for Key Vote on Historic Roadways Protection Act: Tell Your Senators to Support

The Historic Roadways Protection Act is being voted on in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on February 4th. This crucial legislation, supported by BRC, would help protect hundreds of miles of closed Utah routes while courts decide ongoing R.S. 2477 right-of-way disputes. Tell...

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At last Wednesday's meeting we heard about this. It happened!

Rogue Judge Closes 2,200 Miles of OHV Routes in the Mojave Desert

A federal judge has ordered the closure of 2,200 miles of legally designated OHV routes and vast swaths of the Mojave Desert—imposing land-use policy from the bench without Congress, community input, or accountability. This precedent puts all public land access at risk. Tell the Department of...

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Vote

Urgent: Senate Committee Set for Key Vote on Historic Roadways Protection Act: Tell Your Senators to Support

The Historic Roadways Protection Act is being voted on in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on February 4th. This crucial legislation, supported by BRC, would help protect hundreds of miles of closed Utah routes while courts decide ongoing R.S. 2477 right-of-way disputes. Tell...

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Good news for Utah and everyone else

Access Protection Bills Gaining Ground in Congress

The picture here was taken by a BRC member who was in DC for the hearing to protect access. We need everyone to step up and do what they can. We need you to add your voice. We need you to forward this to your friends, family, and clubs. If we can get this done, it will mean permanent protections...

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This is not good! Help stop the special interest groups

WEMO Closures: The Next Step in Protecting 2,200 Miles of Trails

The picture here was taken by a BRC member who was in DC for the hearing to protect access. We need everyone to step up and do what they can. We need you to add your voice. We need you to forward this to your friends, family, and clubs. If we can get this done, it will mean permanent protections...

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Do you all like car camping, did you spend a ton of money so that you could “overland” and camp where you please? If so then read this, those days could be closing in on you!

Death to Free, Dispersed Camping By A Thousand Cuts

Agencies are quietly eliminating free, dispersed camping across the West. The SR9 decision outside Zion is the most recent example of a strategy designed to end it permanently. Here’s how they do it and what you can do about it.

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Folks if you like putting on some miles in the SR Swell please make your voice heard. The BLM may be listening!

Legal Update: BLM Proposes Reopening Closed OHV Routes in San Rafael Swell & Desert

Hundreds of miles of OHV routes in Utah's San Rafael Swell and San Rafael Desert may be reopened under a new BLM alternative. BRC has been fighting these closures in court since 2025, and now the agency wants to hear from riders. Submit your comment in support of reopening these routes by June 8.

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New Bureau of Land Management Ruling Preserves Off-Road Access to U.S. Public Lands​

The Trump Administration has officially repealed the 2024 Public Lands Rule, restoring a multi-use framework for public trails.

Public Land Off-Road Access Officially Preserved by New BLM Land Ruling

The Trump Administration has officially repealed the 2024 Public Lands Rule, restoring a multi-use framework for public trails.

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