The BLM is in the process of revising 11 travel plans in Utah following a 2008 legal challenge from SUWA over resource management at the Moab, Vernal, Price, Kanab, Monticello and Richfield field ...

State of Utah, motorized recreators challenge BLM road closures near Moab The two appeals now head the Interior Board of Land Appeals, which has 45 days to decide whether the Bureau of Land ...

Financial constraints didn’t help: Utah BLM put four other plans on hold so it could finish the high-profile Moab plan. Utah’s congressional delegation and its state government opposed the effort.

Another Utah petroglyph has been defaced, the Utah Bureau of Land Management said Wednesday, adding to a rash of petroglyph vandalism in the Moab area earlier this year. BLM Utah said a concerned ...

Southeast Utah and the Moab region in particular became a flash point of controversy for oil and gas development in 2008 after environmental activist Timothy DeChristopher falsely bid on BLM lease ...

Moab is arguably the most important venue in American off roading, and this month the federal Bureau of Land Management has closed 317 of the area’s 812 trail miles to motorized vehicles. The ...

E-bike use could be coming to more nonmotorized Bureau of Land Management trails in the mountain biking mecca of Moab, Utah, where for the most part the agency doesn’t allow that use on such trails.

Those defending the BLM’s decision argue the trails need to be closed to protect Moab’s precious resources, said Laura Peterson, a staff attorney with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

Off-roading enthusiasts have taken their fight against road closures near Moab to federal court. The BlueRibbon Coalition, Colorado Off-Road Trail Defenders and Patrick McKay, who is the vice ...