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    Default Moab trails threatened



    Tread Lightly is just one source that has posted this recently.


    Currently, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Canyon Country District, Moab Field Office is developing a Travel Management Plan (TMP) for travel routes and route uses in the Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Area (TMA). This TMA covers approximately 300,000 acres of BLM managed land in portions of Grand County, Utah - the entire Special Recreation Management Area of the same name. The Plan is expected to be complete on or before May 2023 as required by the 2017 settlement agreement between the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al.v U.S Department of the Interior, et al..



    This agreement has implications for travel and transportation planning efforts in the Richfield, Price, Moab, Kanab, and Vernal BLM field offices.



    Tread Lightly encourages OHV enthusiasts to be educated about the recreation opportunities available to them. Those wishing to learn more will find documents, maps and the opportunity to comment at: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2001224/510



    Comments must be received by April 26.


    Information about statewide Travel Plan efforts can be found at: https://www.blm.gov/.../travel-and-transportation/utah.

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    CORE has an update, "We are they."


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    It’s MOSTLY the folks with side-by-sides, motorcycles and ATVs that are abusing the land. If the trails were open to “street legal vehicles only” I don’t think we’d have these issues. I spent the last two days in Moab and although the weather was absolutely perfect, I hated it. Our campsite was beautiful but a group of partiers camped nearby blasting music and ruined the experience along with hundreds of loud, speeding motorcycles, atvs and sxs’s. I drove all the way home yesterday instead of camping another night near Moab. And we camped miles into BLM land where I was hoping we’d have a more peaceful setting!
    If I was a local I would not be happy with all of these flocks of idiots ruining the town and the land.
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    I disagree, every user group has idiots and people that just don't care.

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    Every group has those people, but the concentration of them differs as would be expected as different sports have different cultures.

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    That’s the nice way to say what I’m thinking Shane

    I remember a similar thread a year or two ago.... I think there needs to be use management because with so many different users on the same trails it’s inevitable there will be problems.

    Im biased towards street legal vehicles, but I get that OHV’ers love that sport also. Personally I think designated trails for each user group is probably best solution but there is no good solution. I’d be willing to give up 75% of the trails for other user groups if it allowed me to enjoy the 25% of trails my user group gets without having to deal with the other user groups! Again, no good solution .... has to be a compromise
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    The harder the trail you run the less SxSs, motorcycles, and ATVs you see. I rarely see any when I am on a buggy trail.

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    I don’t know that I wanna run trails any harder than Golden spike and Goldbar rim...... at least not in my full size truck! I might enjoy the harder trails in my Jeep though, I really need to drag the Jeep out there this year. I’ve never wheeled Moab in my Jeep, only my Rebel when I had it and my Powerwagon for the last couple years.

    So that makes sense why I’m running into all the OHVs because I’ve stayed mostly on the easy and moderate trails
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    This article is from a couple of years ago. It's a growth oriented tax and spend cycle that is only beginning, the cool quiet town of Moab from the 90s and early 2000s is gone.

    "A 4.25% levy on tourist accommodations, known as the transient room tax, or TRT, has reaped an increasing bounty of revenue that gets pumped right back into growing Grand County’s tourism... the new audit recommends the Legislature consider amending the law to give counties greater latitude in how they spend TRT revenue. Currently, counties must direct at least 47 percent on “tourism promotion,” while up to 53 percent may be spent on “mitigation” of tourism’s impacts."

    https://www.sltrib.com/news/environm...ning-tourists/

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    Besides the assholes that keep damaging the Petroglyphs, it seems like most of the complaints revolve around noise.

    It would be nice if all these motorized vehicles could run silently, or close to it.

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    You should have seen how quiet Moab was in the 1960’s.
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    Tom previously posted:
    "Moab was in the 1960’s."

    Hippie

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    Jim previously posted:
    "Hippie "

    "If you can remember the 60s, you weren't actually there."

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