The Bureau of Land Management has formally reversed a contentious Trump-era decision by closing most of an Arizona national monument to dispersed recreational target shooting.
BLM announced Tuesday it finalized a resource management plan revision that now forbids target shooting on 98 percent of the nearly 500,000-acre Sonoran Desert National Monument.
BLM announced in January it was proposing to close all but 5,295 acres within the national monument to target shooting.
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The final decision overturns a 2018 Trump-era resource management plan amendment that had opened 435,700 acres, or 90 percent of the national monument, to target shooting. It also potentially ends more than two decades of regulatory and legal action on the issue.
