All Entries in the "Midwest – Access Issues" Category
Colorado Stay The Trail Custom License Plates
The license plates will provide funding and create awareness for Stay The Trail’s off-highway vehicle (OHV) educational and ethics programs. The programs highlight responsible OHV use on public lands in an effort to provide a sustainable recreational experience for OHV users and to keep trails and roads open to public access. Requirements: One-time fee of [...]
Recreation Groups Respond To Roadless Rule Decision
Recreation access advocates expressed disappointment with the recent decision of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstating the 2001 Roadless Rule. That decision was issued on October 21, 2011 by a three-judge panel over eighteen months after the case was argued. Their 120-page opinion disagreed with the Wyoming district court, emphasizing the procedural low [...]
Take Back Utah Parade & Rally Saturday August 20, 2011
For up to the minute details including parade route, event location, vendor booth sign-up, start times, etc. visit TBU’s website athttp://www.takebackutah.org Date: Saturday Aug. 20, 2011 Location: State Fair Park and Utah Capitol Building Rally Starts at: 9:30 AM Parade starts at: approx 10:30 AM (staging begins at 6:00 AM) We want to formally invite you to [...]
Glade Run Rec OHVing
Time to rally the masses, we need lots of letters to the BLM, requesting that the Glade remain open to all OHVing, Glade Rec Area wide. Comments need to be positive, intelligent and civil. We need to make it known that areas of the Glade shouldn’t be closed to motorized users and allowed for only [...]
Idaho Legal Action Update
BLUERIBBON COALITION LEGAL ACTION UPDATE! IDAHO LEGAL ACTION UPDATE Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber, There is good reason to send this Idaho Legal Action Update Alert. Much is happening in Idaho–some good, some threatening, and all of it potentially affecting your recreational access. Lawsuits have odd, and sometime very long, life spans. A lawsuit can [...]
BLUERIBBON COALITION IDAHO LANDUSE UPDATE!
Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber, Phil Taylor, a reporter for E&E Publishing, a Washington D.C. based natural resource news source, wrote an article on Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson’s CIEDRA Wilderness bill. Taylor’s excellent article was also picked up by the New York Times (See links below for the article). Taylor reports about how successful the Idaho Recreation [...]
Idaho BLM Seeks Comment on Draft Resource Management Plan and EIS
BLUERIBBON COALITION LANDUSE UPDATE! Idaho BLM Seeks Comment on Draft Resource Management Plan and EIS Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Jarbidge Field Office has announced the release of their Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a 90-day public comment period, which will end [...]
Additional “Listening Session” Announced for St. Louis, Missouri and Southern Illinois
BRC ACTION ALERT AGO – Additional “Listening Session” Announced for St. Louis, Missouri and Southern Illinois Greetings BRC Action Alert Subscribers! On April 16, 2010, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum that will radically change the U.S. Government’s conservation policy. The Memorandum created the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative which, among other things, will take public [...]
ISSA and IRC Needs Our Help!
BLUERIBBON COALITION ACTION ALERT! ISSA AND IRC needs our help! Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber in Idaho, When Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch introduced Congressman Mike Simpson’s Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act (CIEDRA) in the Senate, the Idaho Recreation Coalition (IRC) redoubled their efforts to oppose this lousy bill. We at BRC [...]
Support OHV Recreation on Western Public Lands
House and Senate Western Caucuses to Hold Hearing on Western Jobs The Congressional and Senate Western Caucuses are holding a joint hearing entitled The War on Western Jobs on July 13, 2010 in Washington D.C. The focus of the hearing is on federal policies that are having a negative impact on western jobs and the [...]
