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ShareTrails | Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 5: STANISLAUS NATIONAL FOREST, CA
Legal Challenge to Stanislaus National Forest Snowmobile Plan We are partners with the Sierra Snowmobile Foundation in the most important legal challenge to affect snowmobiling since our fights to keep Yellowstone open for snowmobiles. This case continues to work its way through the courts in California, and we are currently running a sweepstakes to raise
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ShareTrails | Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 6: Potential Recreational Changes for Flaming Gorge
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area spans the border of Wyoming and Utah. As one of the reservoirs in the Upper Colorado River Basin, the water it holds plays an integral role in not just recreation but water levels in other reservoirs as well. Flaming Gorge provides both OHV recreation and water recreation. Submit your comments
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Protect The Harvest | Googles Carbon-Free Energy Compact
In today’s technology-driven society, Google is a household name. Since its founding in 1998, Google has become one of the most prominent technology companies in the world, ranking alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), and Microsoft. Google has even been referred to as the most powerful company in the world and has become more deeply enmeshed…
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ShareTrails | Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 9: Keep Massacre Rocks Open For Recreation
Massacre Rocks, ID The off-road trails around Massacre Rocks near American Falls, Idaho were a favorite destination of Clark Collins, the late founder of BRC. In 2011, the BLM started a planning process that would close almost all of the routes in this area. In addition to closing the off-road routes, this plan would also
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RANGEfire! | Public Lands Dysfunction: Seven bureaucrats control the equivalent of 31 states’ landmass
Originally found on RANGEfire!. Can anyone manage the federal estate? By RANGE contributor GREG WALCHER Remember when air travel used to fun? Big carriers like PanAm competed with TWA and Eastern, as did smaller ones like Braniff and Piedmont, each claiming to offer better food and more comfortable seats. They’re all gone now. The big…
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ShareTrails | Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 8: Dispersed Camping Closures
Land Management agencies are increasingly working to close public land to open, free dispersed camping. BlueRibbon Coalition has continued to fight for your access to responsible dispersed camping experiences on public land for many years. Here are a couple camp sites we fought for this year. We are sharing coordinates because one of the biggest
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ShareTrails | Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 10: Moab Noise Ordinance Case
This year we have partnered with 11 ATV outfitters who are BRC Members in Moab to challenge oppressive ordinances passed by the local government to put them out of business and restrict motorized access to public roads in Moab. The OHV community in Utah was successful in passing new laws at the state level that
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ShareTrails | IMMEDIATE RELEASE: YELLOWSTONE OPEN FOR SNOWMOBILES
December 15th Yellowstone National Park will open to Snowmobilesand Non-commercially Guide Snowmobile Access will be available! Dear Action Alert Subscribers, On December 15, 2022, all the main South, West, Northeast, and East gates will open to another season of snowmobileaccess to Yellowstone National Park. This access will be regulated by the “Yellowstone Winter Use” final
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ShareTrails | Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 9: Black Canyon Corridor, Arizona
Today (December 15) BlueRibbon Coalition filed an appeal to the Black Canyon Corridor Plan in Arizona. While BRC and allied groups were able to improve this plan to include several important rock crawling routes, the final plan still closed ~58% of the routes in the area. Just like we’re doing in Utah, we will fight
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ShareTrails | Twelve Days of Legal Updates| Day 11: Tonto National Forest Plan Objection
Twelve Days of Legal Updates: Our Twelve Biggest Fights and Twelve Big Reasons to Support BlueRibbon Coalition this Giving Season In September 2022, the Tonto National Forest in Arizona released their final updated plan for the National Forest. The Arizona State Association of 4WD Clubs is a longtime member organization of BlueRibbon Coalition, and they