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BLM Utah plans events statewide for National Public Lands Day

Utah

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Cindy Gallo

cgallo@blm.gov

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A group of volunteers in blue shirts stand with trash picked up from public lands.

National Public Lands Day is September 28, and BLM Utah is looking forward to a day of stewardship, partnership, and giving back to your public lands!

We have opportunities for everyone across the state to get their hands dirty and provide some TLC to public lands. For additional information about these projects, please contact your local field office or visit the links below.

West Desert District

Saturday, Sept. 28 – West Mountain shooting cleanup
- 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- W 10400 S, Payson, UT 84102 in the parking area at the BLM kiosk
- Join The Bureau of Land Management West Desert District as we work to clean up a popular dispersed target-shooting area near Payson, Utah, on National Public Lands Day. Work will include collecting and sorting micro-trash and disposing of small litter and large debris. Please come prepared with sun protection, long pants and shirts, appropriate footwear, and plenty of water! We will have water on-site, but West Mountain is highly exposed- there is little to no shade in the project area. A limited quantity of work gloves will be available for use.
- https://www.neefusa.org/npld/west-mountain-utah/west-mountain-cleanup-national-public-lands-day

Shotgun shells litter the ground in a high desert.

Green River District

Friday, Sept. 12 – Seed capsule creation
- 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- 170 S. 500 East, Vernal, UT 84078
- Participants will create Seed Capsules using potting soil, clay and seed mix. The capsules will be allowed to dry and will be stored at the BLM office until all danger of early germination has passed. The second part comes later in the fall. The dried seed capsules will be transferred to the John Jarvie Historic Ranch Pollinator Plot. The Seed Capsules will be dispersed by throwing them out into the roadside habitat where the clay will break down with the winter snow and the potting soil will provide a microenvironment for the seeds to have a good start, thereby increasing diversity of the habitat for bees, butterflies and other important pollinators.
- https://www.neefusa.org/npld/pariette-wetlands-and-john-jarvie-historic-ranch-pollinator-plot/seed-capsules

Paria River District

Sunday, Sept. 29 – Trail cleanup
- 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- Begin at trailheads: Clay Flat and Hog Canyon, Beehive, Cottonwood, Toms, and Bunting trails.
- The Kanab Field Office will be working with local partners including the Back Country Horsemen, UTAZ ATV club and our local Jeep club to remove refuse in the Clay Flat and Hog Canyon areas of the Field Office, several of these areas have been the subject of historic trash dumping. Local groups will work with their individual groups to take pre-signups for individual project dates. BLM would guide the project and assist with removal and provide supplies. Additionally, several groups will be working on the Tilted Mesa Bike trail, cleaning up trash and repairing trail. Local trail patrol groups will work on local trails providing trash clean up on the Beehive, Cottonwood, Toms, and Bunting trails.
- https://www.neefusa.org/npld/paria-river-district-kanab-field-office/paria-river-district-kanab-field-office-trail-clean

Color Country District

Saturday, Sept. 28 – Bearclaw Poppy habitat restoration
- 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- New Bearclaw Poppy Navajo Trailhead
- We will pull and bag tumbleweeds from dwarf bearclaw poppy habitat to remove sun and moisture competition for this federally listed endangered species. Participants must register for this event so we can cap the number of participants to prevent trampling of the endangered plants. Sign up at the Conserve Southwest Utah website. This is also an area of illegal garbage dumping so we may also collect and haul out discarded tires, furniture, appliances, etc. Workers should come with durable gloves, sun protection, water and snacks for the morning. We will meet at the New Bearclaw Poppy Navajo Trailhead west of the Bloomington neighborhood on Navajo Drive. We will condense into the fewest number of high-clearance vehicles to reach our work site about 4.5 miles west of the trailhead. The project is suitable for anyone old enough to be able to recognize the difference between a weed and our conservation species.
- https://www.neefusa.org/npld/blm-land-managed-st-george-field-office/dwarf-bearclaw-poppy-habitat-conservation

White flowers of a bearclaw poppy in the desert.

Canyon Country District

Saturday, Sept. 21 – Bar-M mountain bike trail work & upgrades
- 9:00 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.
- Bar M Trailhead
- Working with Grand County's "Trail Mix" department, the Moab BLM has developed a single-track mountain bike trail system that totals about 200 miles. These trails have proven very popular with the public, necessitating maintenance actions. The goal of 2024's National Public Lands Day project is to upgrade some of the trails in the Bar M area to make them last into the future. Volunteers will work with BLM personnel as well as employees of Grand County to bank curves, crib drop offs and undertake other actions that will provide for the long-term sustainability of the popular single-track bike trails in the Moab Field Office.
- https://www.neefusa.org/npld/bar-m-mountain-bike-focus-areamoab-field-office/making-mountain-bike-trails-sustainable-future
Sept. 21-22 – Westwater Canyon, Colorado River cleanup
- CURRENT WAIT LIST
- Two-day river trip
- Work with SUWA will focus on campsites along the river corridor where impactful camping has led to resource damage. We will replace signage and remove trash. Work will include campsite compliance clean-up and manual reclamation of visually disturbed surfaces.
- https://suwa.org/events/westwater-canyon-wsa-national-public-lands-day-volunteer-appreciation-rivertrip/
Thursday, Sept. 26 – Canyonlands Natural History Association celebration
- 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
- Moab Information Center, 25 E. Center St., Moab
- Celebrate National Public Lands Day with CNHA on Thursday, September 26th from 5pm – 8pm at the Moab Information Center! Join us, along with the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and the US Forest Service for live music from The Butch Cassidies, free swag, and more!
- https://cnha.org/news-events/
Saturday, Sept. 28 – Sand Flats spruce up
- 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Sand Flats Recreation Area, Hell’s Revenge parking area
- Sand Flats is just two miles from the town of Moab. Comanaged by Grand County and the BLM, Sand Flats is the home of the Slickrock Bike Trail, as well as Hells Revenge and Fins and Thing Jeep Trails. The relatively small (9,000 acre) recreation area receives heavy visitation ... and all those visitors means that the area benefits from a complete spruce up on a yearly basis. The goal will be to maintain the infrastructure so that the site can function well into the future.
- https://www.neefusa.org/npld/sand-flatsmoab-field-office-blm/sand-flats-recreation-area-spruce
Saturday, Sept. 28 – Seven Mile Rim fence installation
- 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
- Seven Mile Rim trailhead
- The four-wheel drive trails so loved by the motorized community in Moab are often being loved to death. Working in coordination with the Grand County Motorized Trail Committee and the Red Rock 4-Wheelers (jeep club that hosts the annual Easter Jeep Safari), the BLM will have volunteers continue erecting the attractive buck and rail fences that help people identify where to park along the Seven Mile Rim, a very popular Jeep Safari route. These fences guide vehicles to the proper line of travel (which is often difficult to discern in slickrock country) and provide the infrastructure to keep Jeeping a sustainable activity.
- https://www.neefusa.org/npld/moab-field-office-bureau-land-management/making-seven-mile-rim-jeep-trail-sustainable-resource

$Two mountain bikers ride down a red desert trail$

Published on: August 30, 2024

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