A federal appeals court has blocked Utah’s efforts to unravel the detente the Bureau of Land Management and motorized users reached with environmentalists over travel on thousands of miles of routes in southern Utah.
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and nine other groups had negotiated a deal with the BLM last year requiring the land agency to revise resource-management plans after a lower court judge concluded the BLM failed to adequately document cultural resources that could be damaged by off-highway vehicles.