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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a plan would close more than 90,000 acres to off-road vehicle users in central Oregon, including a desert area known as the Badlands that has been identified as suitable for wilderness designation. The closure would prohibit trucks, off-highway vehicles (OHVs), motorcycles and cars from being driven on any of the roughly 50 miles of roads and trails that run through the 32,000-acre area.
The OHV ban is part of the Upper Deschutes Resource Management Plan, which will guide the long-term management of about 400,000 acres of public land in central Oregon. The agency is seeking public comment on its final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the plan. BLM officials expect to officially adopt the new resource management plan sometime this summer.
Overall, vehicles would be prohibited on 93,776 acres under the plan, compared with 6,550 acres currently. The new plan would also prohibit vehicle use off roads and trails on all BLM-administered lands, changing the management of 153,600 acres currently open to all OHV use.
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