Moab Land Closure

[@mahbriggs]

We need to change administrations and return control of these lands to the people, not bureaucrats!

[@leroyll1144]

Assert our Rights as the People who Really own and Govern. This Country.NOT The Elites and Unelected Bureaucracy.!!!!

[@debzj5021]

In some areas of the country, ORV clubs have actually partnered with the BLM to manage trash patrols, and provide trail maintanence, in exchange to keep these areas open and accessible for all.

[@routetoadventure]

This is true here as well. I’ve been a member of the Red Rock 4 Wheelers club, the club that puts on the Easter Jeep Safari since I was 16. They work closely with the BLM to maintain trails and get permits for their events. That makes this closure even more disturbing in my eyes.

[@odysseyusa]

The BLM’s inconsistencies point to the decision either being arbitrary…or politically influenced by special interest groups seeking to stop human access eventually…well except for themselves because they’re the heroes in their own mind. They think they’re the only ones who can be trusted and the only ones who can save the land.

[@vicbob53]

Thanks for talking about this issue. I joined the Blue Ribbon Coalition in 1999 after going on a snowmobile tour of Yellowstone. Groups wanted to ban all snowmobiles and the BRC was speaking out for access. I talked to supporters of the ban and the answer was to walk in. I live in Georgia but I see trail issues all across the USA.

[@routetoadventure]

That’s what makes the BRC great. They are out to keep lands open everywhere. It’s sad that we have to constantly battle to keep access to our public lands. The BRC and the State of Utah have filed separate lawsuits to fight this land closure as of October 30th. It will be a long, hard fight, but it sounds like we’ve got the right people supporting our side of the aisle. Thanks for the comment!

[@richardnord8484]

It's also happening Here in Australia, we are being slowly removed from the tracks and crown land. Keep fighting for your land usage, we all have to stand against the times of tyranny.... best of luck with that fight.

[@sh-df1bb]

I'm absolutely heartbroken over these closures! We have to get together and fight these groups! Let's schedule meetings to protest at the meetings we need to protest at! There's strength in numbers!

[@carlu-dovica]

Now after California has closed so much land, off roaders are finding new interests in the other western states. Contrary to what the land management bureaucracy says, it seems the more popular an area becomes, the more they will hiss and steam to get it shut down.

[@routetoadventure]

You're absolutely right. Shutting down access to areas will cause overuse situations to the areas that are open, which will likely lead to closures of those areas and so on. Eventually we'll be penned in to our overcrowded urban environments. That's a sad future.

[@orangekilla3374]

@@routetoadventureit’s all part of the elitest agenda look up UN wildlands project 2030

[@sledge7583]

Thank you for bringing this up to more people, an educational guide to what is going on with a variety of topics. That being said, the music is a distraction, can you edit the music out? 🎶 Your teaching, and those watching are students .
THANK YOU, happy adventures and continue to spread the word.

[@elkwood8]

Access was not much of a problem back in the 80"s. The big land closures seemed have started in the 90's!

[@routetoadventure]

I'll take your word for it. I was just a pup when I attended my first Easter Jeep Safari back in 1989. From then until now the arguments have raged. The closures have been ongoing, but they sure are amping up.

[@rebeccabutler9728]

Music is very very distracting

[@jeraldheinrich3589]

You are correct, the public lands are for everyone. Good point made about someone that may be handicapped, aids are needed to enjoy public lands, and they have the right to enjoy them also,you can't tell them they have no rights,it is for everyone.

[@bped8790]

These trail closures would have never happened under the previous administration. The current President and Secretary of the interior dont care about recreational access or what you think. The Secretary is totally invested in restricting access to any public lands that were ever occupied by native Americans. She is transferring management of millions of acres of public lands to tribal agencies. Please consider the use of federal (public) lands when you decide which candidate to vote for in the upcoming Presidential election.

[@elkwood8]

The citizen own the land! The fed. Gov. is not constitutionally allowed to owned land.

[@RavensEyeOffroad]

New subscriber here! I have been trying to get the word out as well. Your video was suggesting mine so I figured we had enough in common to sub haha :). Ill admit I have been getting lots of semi-hateful comments on my video. Im hoping we can fight back in a mature way, carving out the SxS community, for example, isnt helping out side. Im also not sure if the BLM comment sections about proposals are legitimately being considered or just for show. I suppose time will tell...

[@routetoadventure]

Thanks for subscribing! I agree that we all need to fight back maturely. However, it seems that people don't know how to do that in this day and age. It seems that it's either this way or that and nowhere in between. Its frustrating. In the cases around Moab, I think you're right that our voices aren't being heard. They seem to have an agenda and the right people in place to make it happen. Recently there have been some victories for land use that the BRC has announced in the last few weeks that are encouraging, but it will be an uphill battle for sure.

[@fredfrederick5607]

Closing trails to motorized vehicles is a violation of the ADA. Motorized vehicles is the only way someone like me with limited mobility can enjoy these areas. I cant hike in that far, and there are no wheelchairs capable of the journey. Unless they provide some alternate means for me to enjoy this area, it either needs to be entirely closed to everyone, or open to those with special needs. I believe a lawsuit based on discrimination against the disable would succeed.

[@routetoadventure]

We couldn’t agree more.

[@fredfrederick5607]

@@routetoadventure find Someone disabled and file a lawsuit.

[@mountainmonk5874]

I find more trash hiking and from the pavement than I do 4wheelin. If I do find trash I pick it up. The same people that in fly private jets and tell us we are destroying the environment that push for this.

[@routetoadventure]

Right?’ It’s ridiculous.

[@ThatVoiceinYourHeadLovesYou]

Truth!

[@robertspruill3067]

I guess after this will be Appalachian trails we are losing our freedom time to act now never voted before but put in a corner and don't have a choice

[@mbrown1519]

I don't get it at all, I've traveled thousands and thousands of miles in those places. This is completely disgusting. I'm 70 years old this is the only way for me to see places like this and to think all of my tax dollars that have been spent on this land .

[@routetoadventure]

It is disgusting. It makes me sick to see. This is likely part of the 30x30 plan that the current administration has set forth. They want to close off 30% of the countries land and oceans in the name of conservation. Then, of course it move to the 50x50 plan and so on. Its unbelievable.

[@terrysmith8133]

people don't support Blue Ribbon Coalition there will be more closures

[@bkbland1626]

A bunch of negative comments, although humans CAN'T be depended on. EVER. So the closures are our own fault. Eat yer liver.

[@VeryCoolJeep]

Exactly. Do you know how much rubbish i clean when i go travel, all the petroglyphs are vandalized, I hope thgey close the trails LOL.

[@thomaskaiakapu2672]

Biden did that.