The Utah Rivers Council recently announced its displeasure with the the Bureau of Land Management for failing to explain, among other things, how the federal agency came upon the conclusion that only 28 river segments are suitable for Wild and Scenics Rivers desgination. The BLM had previously found 118 of the 676 segments under its juristiction as being eligible for inclusion.
The URC calls the BLM Resource Management Plans "an absolute atrocity and travesty for our state's incredible rivers." The non-profit group also called the plans illegal, violating the National Environmental Policy Act and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act was created 40 years ago. Not one mile of Utah's famed rivers or streams has been designated as Wild and Scenic.
Here's a story I did on the URC's efforts last year with a multimedia on the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam.
— Brett