Comments closed July 22
Stop permanent OHV route expansion across 344,000 Utah acres
Bureau of Land Management · Dinosaur North area, Vernal Field Office
- What
- BLM is locking in 700 miles of off-highway vehicle routes across northeastern Utah's Dinosaur North wildlands.
- Where
- Dinosaur North area, Vernal Field Office, Uintah County, UT
- How much
- Nearly 344,000 acres of high desert terrain in Uintah and Daggett counties face permanent route designations that could open sensitive wildlife habitat and roadless areas to motorized use.
- Decided
- Comments closed July 22, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from BLM ePlanning project page ↗, read July 8, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-UT-G010-2026-0122-EA ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedJuly 22, 2026, from BLM ePlanning project page, its public participation period ↗. Read July 8, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
Affects public lands
BLM is locking in 700 miles of off-highway vehicle routes across northeastern Utah's Dinosaur North wildlands.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
The BLM is designating routes in the Dinosaur North area of the Vernal Field Office. This area covers approximately 344,822 acres in northern Uintah and eastern Daggett counties. The plan would designate approximately 700 miles of routes as open, limited, or closed for off-highway vehicle use across 223,616 acres of BLM- managed lands.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Utah
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Utah, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Bears Ears National Monument, Utah: The five-Tribe coalition that petitioned for the monument and shared in managing it until the July 2026 proclamation disbanded the Bears Ears Commission.
- Grand Staircase Escalante Partners
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Grand Staircase-Escalante, Utah: The monument’s friends group: Science, stewardship, and the legal fight over its boundaries.
- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Green River (Flaming Gorge to Colorado), Utah: Sued BLM in August 2024 to void 51 reaffirmed oil and gas leases in the San Rafael Desert, including one in the heart of the Labyrinth Canyon Wilderness carved by the Green River.
- Utah Diné Bikéyah
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Bears Ears National Monument, Utah: The Native-led nonprofit whose cultural mapping work built the original monument proposal.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
The photograph on this page: Desert bighorn sheep in red-rock canyon country. It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over Vernal Field Office.
Who holds the vote
PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.
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