[DoodleDawg]

The canyon was closed to motor vehicles in 2007, the agency said, after two men forged an illegal seven-mile trail. Hikers and those on horseback are still allowed there.

So in other words the land is not closed off. It's just closed to people who want to rip up the place with their ATVs. It's full of archeological sites and is sacred to the Navaho.

So here's a compromise. The BLM allows the ATV riders to have open season on the canyon and ride all over the places where the Navaho hold their ceremonies and gather their herbs and have their archeological sites. And the BLM also allow the Navaho to have a no limit open season on the ATV riders. See who's standing at the end.

[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.

[Balding_Eagle]

And the BLM also allow the Navaho to have a no limit open season on the ATV riders.

You obviously haven't assessed the type of ATV riders we are talking about here.

Next you'll be crying about all the ATV riders rushing over to play Cowboys and Indians.

[Smokin' Joe]

Two people make an illegal trail, and you would deny access to all the people who were doing things correctly?

Are you my 5th grade teacher? Someone chewed gum, so no one goes out for recess?

There are laws to deal with the people who broke the law.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

We won the last time they tried that.