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Off-roaders are revved up to see southern Utah’s Factory Butte reopened to motorized use. But environmentalists are gearing up for a fight.

(Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) The BLM has reopened the public land surrounding Factory Butte, pictured here on the southern end of the San Rafael Reef as seen near Hanksville, to cross-country motorized travel after a 13-year closure to protected endangered cactus species.