Opposition mounts against a National Park Service order to allow off-road vehicles like ATVs and UTVs on Utah’s park roads, as critics call for a public environmental analysis. Amid fears that rangers will have difficulty enforcing such vehicles to stay on the road, a recent memo by the Superintendent of Arches and Canyonlands states, “the propensity of these vehicles to be driven off-road where prohibited is well established in research.” Learn more during the News and Public Lands Corner. Plus, a coalition of environmental groups is suing the federal government over the operation of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.
