[SunTzuWu]

It's just closed to people who want to rip up the place with their ATVs.

Yes their goal is to "rip up the place". Your bias reveals itself.

It's full of archeological sites and is sacred to the Navaho.

The final arrow in the quiver of NIMBYism.

The point of all this, which you missed, is challenging the BLM's ongoing land grabs.

[Ben Ficklin]

All you have to do is search You Tube with the phrase "tearing up the desert" to find the videos the ATV riders post of themselves tearing up the desert.

And anything else they can tear up.