Study: Dispersing recreation makes matters worse

Groups ask BLM to address non-motorized recreation impacts

THE NEWS: A collaboration of environmental groups urges the Bureau of Land Management to shift non-motorized recreation policy from its current “piecemeal approach that often pushes heavy use into sensitive, less-visited backcountry areas” to one that concentrates “use and improvements in the more popular and easily accessed frontcountry.” The request i…