The Bureau of Land Management is wading into another large travel management plan revision in remote Utah that’s already drawing the scrutiny of off-highway vehicle groups.
BLM on Friday released a series of potential off-highway vehicle routes that it says will determine the alternatives that will be analyzed in a draft environmental assessment later this year reviewing changes to the Henry Mountains and Fremont Gorge Travel Management Plan.
The plan — one of 11 BLM is required to develop in response to a legal settlement more than a decade ago concerning the impacts of off-road vehicles — will determine what routes will remain open to off-road trucks, dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles.
The proposed off-highway vehicle routes in the Henry Mountains and Fremont Gorge plan cover, collectively, 2,200 miles in parts of remote Garfield and Wayne counties in southern Utah.
