BLM announces proposal for Calf Creek Recreation Site improvements
Thirty-day public comment period for Notice of Proposed Development begins today
KANAB, Utah The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering site improvements at the Calf Creek Recreation Area in Garfield County, Utah, and today published a notice of proposed development to solicit public input for this project. If implemented, this proposal would address both deferred maintenance needs and allow for upgraded site improvements within one of the most popular recreation sites on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
“The popularity of Calf Creek has increased over the past ten years,”
said Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument Manager Vicki Tyler. “Our goal is to implement additional measures that will enhance the visitor experience while improving public access and safety as well as reducing resource degradation.” The BLM has published an ArcGIS StoryMap to describe the project proposal which is a
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It will be a full day, but if you want to get away for a day or two, a trip to Utah s Grosvenor Arch is going to be worth the drive.
A six-hour drive southwest of Grand Junction will take you to the northwestern corner of the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. What you will find is the amazing Grosvenor Arch, which is actually two sandstone arches reaching more than 150 feet above the ground and 92 feet across.
Don t Forget Your Camera
From the parking lot, you take a short paved trail right up to the base of the arch where you can look straight up at this majestic formation. Pictures certainly don t do it justice. I was in complete awe of this thing when I first saw it. The Grosvenor Arch is huge, beautiful, and very impressive.
Biden unveils plan to conserve 30% of the U.S.
With plenty of beautiful public land, will Utah play an outsized role in reaching the goal?
(Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Scenic landscapes like Utah s San Rafael Swell, seen in this 2010 photo shot from the Wedge Overlook, are expected to play a role in President Joe Biden s ambitious conservation agenda that looks to protect 30% of the nation s lands and waters by 2030.
| May 8, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
President Joe Biden’s land and water conservation plan, released Thursday under the title “America the Beautiful,” highlights a preference for locally driven initiatives, tribal sovereignty, job creation, respect for private property rights and reliance on science all things that seem tailored to blunt the concerns of the West’s conservative political leaders who reflexively chafe at development restrictions on public lands.