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Showing posts with label closures. Show all posts
June 13, 2017

Mitchell Caverns’ long-awaited reopening postponed

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Mitchell Caverns’ reopening has been delayed until October in the eastern Mojave Desert’s Providence Mountains. State park officials had h...
November 7, 2014

Section of National Trails Highway to reopen

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Public Works equipment repairing a section of National Trails Highway between Newberry Springs and Ludlow to repair road damage caused by ...
October 30, 2014

Desert act turns 20, what it saved

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Hikers climbing up to Keane Wonder mine in Death Valley National Park. (Rita Beamish) By Deborah Sullivan Brennan San Diego Union-Trib...
October 16, 2014

ROUTE 66: After the rains, a humbled highway

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Travelers are being turned away from fabled Route 66 and large sections of the historic highway have been closed since mid-September after h...
October 10, 2014

Federal Court: One Million Acres Near Grand Canyon Protected From Mining

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The Grand Canyon (Shutterstock) by Ari Phillips Climate Progress I n early October, an Arizona federal judge upheld the Obama Adminis...
September 30, 2014

Judges seem skeptical of U.S. in high-stakes Utah road dispute

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  PUBLIC LANDS Kane County, Utah, R.S.2477 road claims. Phil Taylor E&E / Greenwire DENVER -- A federal appeals court yesterd...
August 28, 2014

Dozens of desert tortoise sterilized

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By Caroline Bleakley KLAS-TV Las Vegas LAS VEGAS -- It might seem odd the desert tortoise, an endangered species, needs population contr...
August 19, 2014

Westerners fear monumental land grab by Obama administration

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By Kelly David Burke FoxNews.com U tah officials are scrambling to prevent the Obama administration from locking down thousands of acres...
May 13, 2014

Federal probe could leave Utah ATV protest riders facing charges

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As a Kane County sheriff's deputy watches from a horse, ATV riders make their way into Recapture Canyon, north of Blanding, Utah, on S...
May 10, 2014

Utah residents become next to confront Bureau of Land Management, in growing debate

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May 10, 2014: ATV riders cross into a restricted area of Recapture Canyon, north of Blanding, Utah, in a protest against what demonstrators ...

Utah protesters prepare for new face-off with feds

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In this 2010 photo, Bureau of Land Management staffer Tom Heinlein puts a "No vehicles" placard at the trail head of Recapture Can...
May 3, 2014

Rancher’s family takes grazing fight to sheriff

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Ammon Bundy, son of rancher Cliven Bundy files a criminal complaint against the Bureau of Land Management at Metropolitan Police Department ...
April 7, 2014

Glamis Dunes: Judge rejects lawsuit, opening new areas to off-roaders

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Additional areas of the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, known as Glamis, will be opened to off-roaders this fall. (AP) By Janet Zim...
March 4, 2014

Off-roaders’ battle over Johnson Valley recreation area ends

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The Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area hosts the famous “King of the Hammers” Race. (SEMA) Staff Report Tire Business ...
November 14, 2013

Time to throw the Antiquities Act into the recycling bin of history

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Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah OPINION By RON ARNOLD The Examiner T wo words — national monument — conjure Image...
November 2, 2013

H. R. 2467 – A Threat to America’s Economic and National Security

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Copper has been mined at Morenci, Arizona for more than 100 years. Under provisions contained in H. R. 2467, mining operations would be requ...