Federal land managers say they are reassessing recent motorized vehicle route designations at a popular recreational area outside of Moab, which could become the next political football within Utah’s public lands.

Bureau of Land Management officials on Wednesday announced their plan to review the Labyrinth/Gemini Bridges Travel Management Area, with a primary focus being whether routes “currently designated as closed or limited to off-highway vehicles” should remain closed off, potentially reversing changes made during the Democratic Biden administration.

“The process has and will be informed by the agency, cooperators and the public — including a comment period,” the agency added in a statement.

The bureau, now overseen by the Republican Trump administration, passed a new management p

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