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Travel board warns draft BLM resource-management guidance could cap group sizes and limit public events on federal lands
Summary
Board members and staff reported a BLM Resource Management Plan (RMP) discussion that includes potential limits on group sizes and special-event permitting on federal lands in the county; staff invited board members to a public rec board meeting on March 26 in Castle Dale to comment before decisions are finalized.
Members of the Emery County Travel Bureau and staff raised concerns about a draft Bureau of Land Management (BLM) resource-management discussion that could add blanket restrictions on group sizes for events on federally managed recreation lands.
During the meeting staff said the BLM and recreation partners are reviewing a proposed approach that could limit permitted group sizes for public-land events to a relatively low figure (attendees of roughly 200–250 were discussed in the meeting record) and could change how the agency prioritizes competing permit requests on the…
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