In his op-ed against the new Bureau of Land Management travel management plan for Labyrinth Canyon, Ben Burr of the Blue Ribbon Coalition makes the baffling claim that only 0.7% of public lands there have motorized access.
That absurdly low figure suggests that he’s only counting the literal road beds. It makes me wonder: Is there anything in Utah so beautiful or so precious that Burr would decline to drive across it?
The Green River through Labyrinth Canyon is an awe-inspiring ribbon of life, yet Burr’s only concern seems to be that protecting it makes his motorized rock-crawling route a little shorter. Kudos to the BLM for a plan that actually respects the value of desert water.
Amy Brunvand, Salt Lake City