Legal Opinion
United States v. Wells
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 23, 2017No. 16-4006; 16-4007PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
Recapture Canyon lies just east of Blanding in Southeastern Utah and runs south of Recapture Dam and U.S. Highway 191 along a creek. The Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) closed an area of Recapture Canyon to all-terrain vehicles (“ATVs”)1 in 2007, to prevent soil damage and the spoliation of archeological resources near the trail. Frustrated with what had been billed as a temporary closure—and against a backdrop of simmering tensions between federal land management agencies and some residents of Southeastern Utah—in 2014, cértain individuals planned an ATV ride to…
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