BLUERIBBON COALITION ACTION ALERT!
ATTENTION ALL ROCK CRAWLING ENTHUSIASTS
PLEASE SEND EMAIL TO HELP PROTECT CHILI CHALLENGE TRAILS!
Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber,
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Las Cruces District Office, is preparing a new Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the new Prehistoric Trackways National Monument.
The establishment of the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument near Las Cruces, New Mexico last year -- via the odious Omnibus bill -- was a bitter disappointment. But when two powerful Senators want a Monument, and both are on the Senate natural resource committee and both are from New Mexico, I guess it was an up-hill battle from the get-go.
Still, OHV advocates in New Mexico were successful in getting recreation identified as a monument value as well as a section directing the BLM to allow permitted events such as the Chili Challenge.
BUT.... Monument status gives the anti-recreation crowd the opportunity to go after the Chili Challenge trails. And they WILL try to close them via the RMP for the new Monument.
Read more and TAKE ACTION here . . .
http://www.sharetrails.org/alerts/?alert=1113
