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Court gives environmentalists a victory, affirms deal reached with feds to revise land plans

Courtesy photo by Ray Bloxham, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance The Muddy Creek proposed wilderness in Utah’s San Rafael Swell is among several BLM travel management areas where the feds agreed to re-evaluate 20,000 miles of routes it the BLM had approved across 6 million acres in southern Utah. The deal, which was upheld Wednesday by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, resolved eight years of litigation. Utah and several counties complained the agreement would force the BLM to retire routes if they degrade wilderness values.