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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
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ShareTrails | Twelve Days of Legal Updates | Day 12: National Park Service Addresses Low Water Levels at Lake Mead
The National Park Service is requesting comments to address low water levels at Lake Mead in Nevada. The NPS is looking at three options for how they should manage marinas, campgrounds, and recreation infrastructure as they adjust to low lake levels. One should note that motorized access should be accommodated and resources such as ramps
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RANGEfire! | MIT Climate scientist: Climate is an absurd, quasi-religious scientific narrative
Originally found on RANGEfire!. MIT Climate scientist: Climate is an absurd, quasi-religious scientific narrative by Craig Rucker CFACT CFACT’s Climate Depot is reporting on a hard-hitting paper by Dr. Richard Lindzen, the renowned MIT climate scientist, which rejects the prevailing global warming narrative by relying on peer-reviewed science published in academic journals. Dr. Lindzen calls…
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ShareTrails | Defend Lake Powell and Lake Mead: Don’t Let Bureau of Reclamation and National Park Service Close Our Reservoirs
IMPORTANT: IT IS IMPORTANT TO READ THE FULL BRIEFING BEFORE YOU COMMENT. THIS ACTION ALERT FORM AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE WILL SEND COMMENTS TO BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, AND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. THERE ARE CURRENTLY TWO PLANNING PROCESSES THAT ARE INTERRELATED, AND LAKE POWELL AND LAKE MEAD USERS NEED TO BE
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Protect The Harvest | ELD Mandates Impact Food Security
By Jaclyn Krymowski for Protect The Harvest Americans are blessed with an abundant, safe, and relatively inexpensive supply of food. We rarely consider how food gets to the grocer, except when shelves are bare and supply chain issues are in the headlines. When we do consider food security and agriculture, we may think about issues…