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KZMU News: Monday October 7, 2019

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English - October 07, 2019 19:00 - 7 minutes - 6.76 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
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Opposition mounts against a National Park Service order to allow off-road vehicles like ATVs and UTVs on Utah’s park roads, as critics call for a public environmental analysis. Amid fears that rangers will have difficulty enforcing such vehicles to stay on the road, a recent memo by the Superintendent of Arches and Canyonlands states, “the propensity of these vehicles to be driven off-road where prohibited is well established in research.” Learn more during the News and Public Lands Corner. Plus, a coalition of environmental groups is suing the federal government over the operation of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.