People who like to take aerial tours of Utah’s national parks may soon see stringent limits on where, when and how low pilots can fly over them.
Under a court order resolving a long-running lawsuit last year, the National Park Service is now proposing management plans governing scenic air tours after decades of outsourcing the job to the Federal Aviation Administration.
On Friday, it released a draft plan for Bryce Canyon National Park, where commercial air tours have long enjoyed wide latitude with hundreds of flights a year, as well as for Utah’s Arches and Canyonlands national parks, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and Rainbow Bridge and Natural Bridges national monuments...