Joining Blue Ribbon Coalitions MOAB Partnership is what they are asking in a nutshell.
Moab Partnership
The Moab Partnership
What is the Moab Partnership?
The Moab partnership is an effort by BRC and other recreational access groups to defend responsibly managed recreational uses at the BLM,s Moab Field Office. By joining the Partnership, you help fund legal and NEPA analysis of the BLM's planning documents.
How does the Moab Partnership work?
Partners make a pledge of $10.00 per month for one year using BRC's secure website (
www.sharetrails.org) or make a one-time Partnership donation of $120.00. Your donation is placed in a restricted account to be used for efforts related to the BLM's Moab and Monticello Field Office planning processes.
What does the Moab Partnership do for me?
By becoming a Moab Partner you give groups like BRC the tools to aggressively participate in the BLM's planning process. Review of the environmental analysis guards against arbitrary and unfair closures, but also helps defend against anti-access lawsuits.
Moab BLM is proposing drastic changes from traditional public land management:
BLM is proposing huge changes from what is currently allowed. Much of the proposed management is decidedly "Park-like." While some of the changes are needed, and BRC will be supporting the BLM on many of these, others are arbitrary and unnecessary.
Beginning sometime this summer, the BLM will move to a critically important stage in the process: the release of the Draft Plans and Draft EIS. There will be a limited public review and comment period in which all of the various stakeholder groups as well as the general public can submit comments and suggestions to the BLM.
Anti recreation groups such as the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) have staff to review the environmental analysis to find flaws that will nudge the final decision their way. Indeed, many stakeholders are paying for professional review of these documents in order to protect their interests. The OHV community must do this as well.
As always, funds for such an effort are limited. In order to raise funds for this important effort, BRC is initiating the "Moab Partnership" program.
BRC's Moab Partners will receive the Moab Update, a special quarterly newsletter dedicated to the latest news on BLM's planning process.