Oppose Gilbert Creek Aspen Restoration
Gilbert Creek Aspen Restoration Project
U.S. Forest Service· Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Evanston-Mountain View Ranger DistrictU.S. Forest Service project page ↗
Forest ServiceWe track this on the agency’s own system of record, where most on-the-ground decisions live.
The groups on this fight
4 groups work Utah
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition
Works 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
Works Utah: the monument’s friends group: science, stewardship, and the legal fight over its boundaries.
- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Works 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
Works 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.
The Forest Service is seeking public comments on a proposal to restore aspen stands across roughly 7,217 acres on the North Slope of the Uinta Mountains using thinning, burning, and riparian improvements. It's operating under an Emergency Secretarial Determination that waives the normal pre-decisional objection process under 36 CFR 218, so this scoping period is your main opportunity to weigh in. Comments are due by July 8, 2026 at 11:59 PM Mountain Time.
In the agency’s own words
The Gilbert Creek Aspen Restoration project would restore aspen stands and improve forest health across approximately 7,217 acres on the North Slope of the Uinta Mountains. Treatments include mechanical and hand thinning, mastication, pile burning, prescribed fire, and riparian habitat improvements
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