Aaron and Kate are joined by Laura Peterson, staff attorney with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, to talk about the Bureau of Land Management’s recently finalized Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Plan. The plan will guide land management decisions for a 300,000-acre landscape to the north of Moab for years to come, and will help protect cultural sites, riparian habitat, and the experience of non-motorized recreationists while allowing for motorized recreation on more than 800 miles of dirt trails and routes.

• BLM Releases Plan that Finally Protects Labyrinth Canyon and Surrounding Public Lands – Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
  
• Bennet, Senate Colleagues Push to Modernize Oil and Gas Bonding Requirements on Public Lands – Office of Michael Bennet
  
• The state of tribal co-management of public lands – High Country News
  
• Cox calls BLM decision to close Moab off-roading routes ‘blatant federal overreach’ as state files legal challenge – Deseret News
  
• Map of Labyrinth Rims/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Plan – Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
  

Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 

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Music: Purple Planet

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