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"In recent years, aggressive green groups and federal agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), have sparked conflicts over numerous historic county roads in various regions of Utah, with the most notable case involving the road into San Juan County’s Recapture Canyon. In 2007, the BLM closed a popular route in the bottom of the canyon to motorized travel, contending it was a ‘trail’ under federal jurisdiction, when in fact it was, and remains an RS-2477 *public right-of-way that was established when San Juan County was settled in the 1880’s.
"Garfield and Kane Counties got involved when the USFS closed thousands of miles of roads in the Dixie National Forest. In 2005 the federal government banned motorized travel in the area, and in 2009 the USFS issued a travel plan which effectively decommissioned historical RS-2477 roads and trails throughout central southern Utah. In 2011 the State of Utah joined these counties and sued the federal government along with SUWA, which intervened in behalf of the feds, and sought a dismissal of the lawsuit. Radical greens, such as SUWA, and some federal agents and politicians have belittled the RS-2477 statute as ‘outdated,’ and insist it was fully repealed when the Federal Lands Policy Management Act (FLPMA) was passed in 1976."
Feds seizing and closing roads that access PUBLIC LANDS.
Getting their knuckles rapped.
The counties and the state stood against them and won this time. Ranchers and farmers and working property owners don't have the funds or the time to engage..which is how the feds have cleared the rural reaches of our country. The few that refuse to budge, sell, or die they either throw in jail, or kill.
Utah RS-2477 roads court victory could impact other cases throughout the West
https://www.utcourts.gov/opinions/supopin/Garfield County v. SUWA20170726_20150335_41.pdf
"Garfield and Kane Counties got involved when the USFS closed thousands of miles of roads in the Dixie National Forest. In 2005 the federal government banned motorized travel in the area, and in 2009 the USFS issued a travel plan which effectively decommissioned historical RS-2477 roads and trails throughout central southern Utah. In 2011 the State of Utah joined these counties and sued the federal government along with SUWA, which intervened in behalf of the feds, and sought a dismissal of the lawsuit. Radical greens, such as SUWA, and some federal agents and politicians have belittled the RS-2477 statute as ‘outdated,’ and insist it was fully repealed when the Federal Lands Policy Management Act (FLPMA) was passed in 1976."
Feds seizing and closing roads that access PUBLIC LANDS.
Getting their knuckles rapped.
The counties and the state stood against them and won this time. Ranchers and farmers and working property owners don't have the funds or the time to engage..which is how the feds have cleared the rural reaches of our country. The few that refuse to budge, sell, or die they either throw in jail, or kill.
Utah RS-2477 roads court victory could impact other cases throughout the West
https://www.utcourts.gov/opinions/supopin/Garfield County v. SUWA20170726_20150335_41.pdf
