If the people living there want to keep those roads open they MUST go out there and un-do any closure mechanisms the BLM puts in place. If they don’t, it will get stuck in court forever and those roads will remain closed forever. Inaction is accepting defeat. This battle will never be won in the courts.
The San Juan County - Utah - commissioners see opening the road as another salvo in a battle to preserve multiple uses on public lands and protect rural counties against the power of the federal government.
San Juan County Sheriff Mike Lacy and a deputy took down closure signs that were standing in the road in upper Salt Creek Canyon at Peekaboo Campground. [ 2000 ].
RS 2477 is a statute adopted in 1866 as part of the Lode Mining Act. The one-sentence statute states, “The right of way for the construction of highways across public lands not otherwise reserved for public purposes is hereby granted.” Although RS 2477 was repealed in 1976, the repeal did not rescind old rights of way, and counties are still filing claims for those.
keeping roads such as Salt Creek open is an economic issue as well as a political one.
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