Since our inception in 2014, UPLA has been fighting for access by all responsible users on our public lands. Although we initially focused primarily on Washington County and Sand Mountain, in the last 2 years we expanded our efforts to include the entire state and other forms of outdoor recreation. We focused on building and strengthening partnerships with others and educating our supporters and followers about how to make a difference in keeping our public lands open.

We are proud of our achievements to protect and improve access for not only off highway vehicles but all forms of outdoor recreation, here’s a few.

• Recommended, justified, wrote grant, and installed 2 state-of-the-art composting toilets on Sand Mountain
• Organized Sand Mountain maintenance project with 150 4×4 and OHV users working together for 2 days installing trail signs and cleaning up dump sites on the perimeter of the BLM land. We also achieved TV Coverage for this event.
• Designed, fabricated, funded and installed Sand Hollow Trail Head Signs on all major trails
• Designed, fabricated, funded and installed Obstacle signs on major obstacles on Sand Mountain
• Worked with BLM to create detailed maps and information panels for 6 kiosks on Sand Mountain
• Obtained approval and installed the Top of the World signpost on Sand Mountain
• Created a website with over 1000 gpx tracks in Utah and surrounding states
• Wrote and supported the App used by St George Jeepers to schedule and promote their weekly trail runs
• Wrote and supported the App used by the Winter Jamboree Trail Guides
• Kevin Keller interviewed multiple times on Fox13 to speak out against the 317 miles of land closures
• Numerous appearances on At Your Leisure Programs
• Launched TrailSaver.com, the first effort to collect trail and route information details at the time users run the trails, then return their notes when they are needed for a Travel Management Action
• Assisted with creation of Waddy’s Corral, a 5 acre staging area to replace the Water Tanks staging area which had become woefully too small for the traffic.
• Assisted with paving Water Tank Road to accommodate increased traffic
• Liaison with Utah State Parks and DNR Law Enforcement to stabilize rates being charged to Events using Sand Hollow State Park
• Led campaign to protect OHV on West side of Sand Mountain and allow the reservoir project without serious objections.
• Participated in numerous cleanups of trash being dumped on perimeters of public lands
• Obtained Access Protection Grant from Utah DNR
• Obtained Grant from Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative to protect Flintstone House on Sand Mountain
• Liaison established with Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office
• Increased size of Board of Trustees to include wider geographic representation and more diverse outdoor recreation activities
• Increased our Follower base on social media over 400%
• Engaged with Utah Legislature on numerous bills affecting use of public lands
• Participated with DOR OHV program for media creation
• Organized and cosponsored NEPA Advanced Training Workshop with BlueRibbon and SLOREX
• Constant Coordination with BlueRibbon Coalition on actions affecting public lands
• Donated $103,316 to BlueRibbon Coalition for Legal Support
• Participated on countless podcasts and Zoom interviews
• Recognition by Western Priorities as one of 6 members of the National Monuments Disinformation Brigade
• Presentations of Major Legal Battle Wins at Family Motor Coach Association 4 Wheelers and at NMRAC meeting
• Hired Professional Natural Resource Consultant to supercharge our efforts at creating substantive and extensive comments. We submitted comments on:
  • Labyrinth Rim  Travel Management Plan
  • Manti-La Sal National Forest Land Management Plan
  • San Rafael Swell Preliminary and Draft EA Travel Management Plan
  • Henry Mountains Preliminary and Draft EA Travel Management Plan
  • Bears Ears National Monument Resource Management Plan
  • Dolores River  Travel Management Plan Scoping
  • BLM Conservation and Landscape Health Rule
  • Red Cliffs Warner Valley Land Exchange Scoping and EA Comments
  • Western Solar Plan
• We participated in many events/meetings to spread our message
  • UTV Takeover
  • OHV Day on the Hill (Legislative)
  • Big 20 Ride
  • Trail Hero
  • Winter 4×4 Jamboree
  • Iron Country OHV
  • Salt Lake Off Road Expo
  • UORA Roundtables
  • SxS Adventure Rally on the Rocks
  • Outlaw ATV Jamboree
  • Vernal Rock Rally
  • Castle Country 4×4 Club Meeting
  • Tri State ATV Club Meetings
  • Utah ATV Association Meetings
  • UT/AZ ATV Club Meeting
  • Bryce Canyon Recreation Council
  • BLM Blueprint Conference
  • House Congressional Hearing in St George on Public Lands
  • Barracks Trail Ride with UT/AZ ATV Club and BLM to Retain OHV Access
  • Matt’s Offroad Games
  • North American Motorized Recreation Council Meeting (NAMRC)

Major New Goals:

• Educate OHV users on the threats to access to our public lands, interventions UPLA and other organizations are engaged in, and how users can help us protect access to our public lands. Educate clubs on how to utilize OHVR grants to accomplish projects, find funding, and utilize UDOR Regional Trail Crews as needed. We are going to promote safe and responsible OHV use using many approaches. Develop and distribute training videos as necessary to educate OHV users on proper etiquette and behaviors such as how OHV riders should behave when they encounter Equestrians on a shared trail, or perhaps how to make effective contacts with local, state and Federal agencies and elected officials.
• Develop and Publish a Utah OHV Impact Study in coordination with UDOR. The study will be completed by a major Utah University, and will be the first one done since 2008 that analyzes the benefits of OHV. This will be an important tool to demonstrate the trends of OHV recreation in Utah, compare it to surrounding states, and provide information for communities to use in developing resources for OHV Recreation.
• Coordinate with Utah Department of Outdoor Recreation to develop and promote common goals, including existing programs such as OHV Program rider education.
• Expand our Board of Trustees to identify and include other outdoor recreation users that share our goals of broad access to our public lands. Our By Laws authorize up to 24 Trustees, we now have 16 Trustees from around Utah representing 4×4, UTV/ATV, Motorcycles, Repair Shops, OHV Clubs, Law Enforcement, Media Production, Education, Mountain Biking, and Competitive Events. Short Term Goals include continuing to expand representation with other areas such as event organizers, equestrians, mapping and similar.
  • Dec 2025           Additional 2 Members, Total 17 Members
  • Dec 2026           Additional 2 Members, Total 20 Members
• Specific Actions to Support Goals
  • Social Media Presence-Social Media and Emailed Newsletter Support are a key way to educate users about our goals and calls to action. Here are some specific goals:
    • Facebook-Increase Views from 45,000 and Reach of 10,000 to
      • Dec 2025           Views 50,000   Reach 12,000
      • Dec 2026           Views 55,000    Reach 14,000
    • Instagram Increase Views from 35,000, Reach from 15,000
      • Dec 2025           Views  45,000    Reach to 20,000
      • Dec 2026           Views   55,000     Reach to 25,000
    • Expand Youtube and X Channel Engagement
    • Increase Subscribers from 5200 to following and maintain Open Rate of >50% on Constant Contact
      • Dec 2025           6000
      • Dec 2026           6500
    • Grow Club Contacts 15% each year, currently 132
  • Club and Event Attendance
    • In 2024, we attended 10 OHV Club Meetings, all in SW Utah. We want to double these meetings throughout the state. 15 in 2025, 25 in 2026.
    • Events-In 2024, we attended 35 days of events to spread our message. We want to increase these to 45 days in 2025 and 50 days in 2026
  • Build TrailSaver and Comments Coach to increase substantive user comments. Goals cannot be set at this time for Comments Coach because we do not have an accurate forecast of the number of travel plans to be implemented under the new administration. Goal will be to accumulate 700 Trail Saver reports in database by Dec 2025, 1,400 in 2026.
  • Build our volunteer efforts to achieve wider engagement so we can be present in more in-the-field activities. Encourage participation with other non profits and government programs such as the Utah Cultural Site Stewardship Program.
  • Develop personal relationships with Land Managers around the State. In person meetings and trail rides with staff and local clubs.
  • Hire a Professional Executive Director to further expand our reach and effectiveness and develop activity and accountability reporting
• Lobbying-As a 501(c)3, UPLA is allowed to engage in limited lobbying activity. We filed 501(h) lobbying election so that we have clearly defined limits on our engagement level. Only registered lobbyists and unpaid volunteers and board members will be engaged in lobbying activities.
• Financial Growth-Continue pursuing diverse funding to accomplish our mission by ensuring we can support all of the following:
  • Donations for litigation and lobbying for access protection to other organizations-$50,000 Annually
  • Program Expenses have averaged approximately $100,000 annually for the last 2 years. We need to continue offering more financial support to other groups and organizations by offering funding support for their projects (for example… helping OHVR grant recipients meet their match requirements)
  • Provide Grant Writing Assistance to other Organizations, including financial assistance
  • Identify and Develop Diverse Funding Sources with private fundraising efforts with continued focus on donations from donor advised funds, securities transfers, and property donations
  • Apply for and utilize grants as needed to achieve our goals

Anytime a new Administration takes control of elected office, it generally is accompanied by significant changes in the policies and practices of that Administration. There is little doubt that President Trump is making sweeping changes, but we have only seen a few signals in his plans about regaining access to our public lands, Interior Secretary Nominee Burgum is still awaiting confirmation, but there are many other very important positions that are still awaiting announcement such as Director of the BLM and Chief of the United States Forest Service, In Utah, there will be a new BLM Utah State Director. I believe it is important to lie out the challenges we’ve had with current policies and be sure our leaders are aware of both what has happened and suggestions for changes going forward.

Today, I will be sending the following letter to President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Acting Interior Secretary Walter Cruickshank, with copies to Senator Mike Lee and Senator John Curtis and Governor Spencer Cox. I encourage you to make your voices heard and send similar letters to members of the Administration.

Loren Campbell
President
Utah Public Lands Alliance

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Utah Public Lands Alliance has been fighting for access to our public lands since 2014, and our efforts have been gaining fruit. Our list of accomplishments is long, but it’s important to realize We Can’t Do It Without You. We need both your voice and your donations, and during the end of 2024 we would like you to consider giving generously to not only sustain, but to accelerate our progress.

Loren Campbell conducted an interview with Steve Radmall, UPLA’s Certified Public Accountant, to discuss tax advantages and donating to UPLA. The subjects discussed included the following topics:

• Are all donations to UPLA deductible?
• Explain the Standard Deduction allowance, and strategies to maximize tax savings
• Donor Advised Funds as a strategy to plan giving for the future, and get a deduction this year
• Double Tax benefits for donating appreciated assets (stocks)
• Qualified Charitable Distributions from IRAs

UPLA is proud of what we’ve accomplished, but we need your support to continue and accelerate our progress. We are grateful for any size or type of donationUPLA is always grateful for every donation of any size. Utah Public Lands Alliance is a IRS recognized 501©3 non profit and donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by current IRS regulations.

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Since our inception in 2014, UPLA has been fighting for access by all responsible users on our public lands. Although we initially focused primarily on Washington County and Sand Mountain, in the last 2 years we expanded our efforts to include the entire state and other forms of outdoor recreation. We focused on building and strengthening partnerships with others, and educating our supporters and followers about how to make a difference in keeping our public lands open.

We are proud of our achievements to protect and improve access for not only motorized off highway vehicles but all outdoor recreationists, some of our most notable accomplishments are indicated in bold.

• Launched December 2024-Our Natural Resource Consultant will assist users in reviewing and recommending changes to make their public comments on land actions “Substantive”
• Completed IRS Conversion from a Private Foundation to a Public Charity. When UPLA was originally formed in 2014, major startup funding came from just a couple founding members, which made it a Private Foundation. All donations were tax deductible, but we could not receive donations from certain sources such as Charitable Trusts or Donor Advised Funds. We began operating as a Public Charity in that our revenue came from grassroots sources, but we never made the switch to being regarded as a Public Charity, We became aware of this in 2023, and began the transition and were just recently approved to be regarded as a Public Charity. Since that approval, we have began getting donations from an increased variety of sources that were unavailable to us before.
• Recommended, justified, wrote grant, and installed 2 state of the art composting toilets on Sand Mountain
• Organized Sand Mountain maintenance project with 150 4×4 and OHV users working together for 2 days installing trail signs and cleaning up dump sites on the perimeter of the BLM land. We also achieved TV Coverage for this event.
• Designed, fabricated, funded and installed Sand Hollow Trail Head Signs on all major trails
• Designed, fabricated, funded and installed Obstacle signs on major obstacles on Sand Mountain
• Worked with BLM to create detailed maps and information panels for 6 kiosks on Sand Mountain
• Obtained approval and installed the Top of the World signpost on Sand Mountain
• Created a website with over 1000 gpx tracks in Utah and surrounding states
• Wrote and supported the App used by St George Jeepers to schedule and promote their weekly trail runs
• Wrote and supported the App used by the Winter Jamboree Trail Guides
• Kevin Keller was interviewed on Fox13 in Moab to speak out against the 317 miles of land closures
• Launched TrailSaver.com, the first effort to collect trail and route information details at the time users run the trails, then return their notes when they are needed for a Travel Management Action
• Assisted with creation of Waddy’s Corral, a 5 acre staging area to replace the Water Tanks staging area which had become woefully too small for the traffic.
• Assisted with paving Water Tank Road to accommodate increased traffic
• Liaison with Utah State Parks and DNR Law Enforcement to decrease exorbitant rates now being charged to Events using Sand Hollow State Park
• Led campaign to protect OHV on West side of Sand Mountain as a result of the proposed Land Exchange benefiting Washington County Water Control District-We Need Your Help On This One Now
• Participated in numerous cleanups of trash being dumped on perimeters of public lands
• Obtained Access Protection Grant from Utah DNR to support funding for our Natural Resource Consultant
• Obtained Grant from Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative to protect Flintstone House on Sand Mountain
• Liaison established with Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office
• Increased size of Board of Trustees to include wider geographic representation and more diverse outdoor recreation activities
• Increased our Follower base on social media over 400%
• Engaged with Utah Legislature on numerous bills affecting use of public lands
• Participated with DNR OHV program for media creation
• Organized and cosponsored NEPA Advanced Training Workshop with BlueRibbon and SLOREX
• Constant Coordination with BlueRibbon Coalition on actions affecting public lands
• Donated $103,316 to BlueRibbon Coalition for Legal Support
• Participated on countless podcasts and Zoom interviews
• Recognition by Western Priorities as one of 6 members of the National Monuments Disinformation Brigade
• Presentations of Major Legal Battle Wins at Family Motor Coach Association 4 Wheelers and at NMRAC meeting
• Hired Professional Natural Resource Consultant to supercharge our efforts at creating substantive and extensive comments. We submitted comments on:
  • Moab Travel Management Plan
  • Manti LaSal National Forest
  • San Rafael Swell Scoping and Draft EA Travel Management Plan
  • Henry Mountains Preliminary and Draft EA Travel Management Plan
  • Bears Ears Recreation Management Plan
  • Dolores River Preliminary Comments
  • BLM Land Conservation Rule
  • Red Cliffs Warner Valley Land Exchange
  • Western Solar Plan
• We participated in the following events/meetings to spread our message
  • UTV Takeover
  • OHV Day on the Hill (Legislative)
  • Big 20 Ride
  • Trail Hero
  • Winter 4×4 Jamboree
  • Iron Country OHV
  • Salt Lake Off Road Expo
  • SxS Adventure Rally on the Rocks
  • Outlaw ATV Jamboree
  • Vernal Rock Rally
  • Castle Country 4×4 Club Meeting
  • Tri State ATV Club Meetings
  • UT/AZ ATV Club Meeting
  • Bryce Canyon Recreation Council
  • BLM Blueprint Conference
  • House Congressional Hearing in St George
  • Barracks Trail Ride with UT/AZ ATV Club and BLM
  • Matt’s Offroad Wrecker Games
  • North American Motorized Recreation Council Meeting

Our major new goals for 2025:

• Continue major financial support for BlueRibbon Coalition
• Publish a Utah OHV Impact Study to be completed by a major Utah University, the first one done since 2008 to analyze the benefits of OHV
• Further expansion of Board of Trustees to include Mountain Biking and Equestrian interest
• Hire a professional Executive Director to further expand our reach and effectiveness

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The challenge we’ve always faced with Travel Management is that we’re always playing catch up with only 30 days for most comment periods, by the time we get the word out and ask people to go out and write comments, we’re playing catch up and don’t have time to run trails or provide great comments to persuade BLM or Forest Service to Keep them Open.

UPLA launched Trail Saver, a new tool for you to prepare notes after each ride you go on, anywhere in Utah. There’s nothing more effective than putting your thoughts in writing right after your ride when everything is fresh in your mind, and your photos and gpx tracks are easily available. If you spend just 5-10 minutes writing a brief report, it will really help us collect better data. Once you submit the form, it will email you a formatted copy of your comments for that trail along with some helpful hints that will make it easy to submit your comments when they are needed. We all think of something else right after we hit submit, Trail Saver allows you to edit or add to your comments, and will immediately send you a revised report. UPLA, BlueRibbon, and local clubs working that area may also be copied on the comments so that they can also assist.

You don’t have to worry about confusing dates either, once the comment period opens for that Travel Management Plan, Trail Saver will email you a reminder with all of your comments, photos, tracks, ratings, etc, along with more tips and instructions on how to submit them to BLM and or Forest Service. For the system to work effectively, you will need the BLM or Forest Service Route numbers, so I recommend you take a pic of those signs as you go by them and include those when submitting your form.

TrailSaver reports should be thought of as your notes about what makes keeping the route open important, views, dispersed campsites, challenging or easy, significant vistas, connections to other important routes can all be important. Make an effort to write short notes on every trail you go on, and let Trail Saver keep track of them. When it’s time to submit comments to BLM, TrailSaver will email you your report along with all your photos and other attachments to make it easy to submit great comments. Unfortunately, 90% of all comments submitted to BLM are not considered because they don’t meet BLM “substantive comment” standards. To learn what makes your comments make a stronger impact, watch our series of short videos on Youtube, or click on this helpful BLM link

Order and display TrailSaver stickers on your rigs so you can explain the program to others you run into. You can order stickers for yourself, group, or club at www.TrailSaver.com

Comments are now open for Henry Mountains and Fremont Gorge, which you should submit to BLM. Other areas coming soon will be Trail Canyon and Pausaugant in Kanab and Dino North in Vernal, so we especially need reports on these, but please submit reports everywhere you go in

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UPLA is focused on three strategies to keep and recapture our loss of access to our public lands, especially for motorized OHV. One powerful option for us is working through the court system. In order to understand this, it’s helpful to have a good understanding of how our judiciary is setup.

Article III of the US Constitution established the Judicial Power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and Inferior courts as Congress may ordain and establish. Thus cases will begin in a Federal District Court, where the facts of the case are presented and a decision is rendered by applying the Facts of the Case with the Law. In cases of high importance and dispute, appeals can be filed with the 10^th Circuit Court of Appeals where a panel of judges will hear and decide the matter.

There are 13 Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal, and sometimes different Circuits consider similar facts yet result in different decisions. This is often the path that causes a case to be eligible for submission to the US Supreme Court. Getting a case through District and Appeals Courts is a lengthy, complex and expensive process, which cause us to make important decisions on choosing the cases that will have the greatest impact and also with the highest potential for success through the entire process.

Having the Supreme Court hear a case is immensely tougher, the Supreme Court receives around 7000 requests for review each year, and typically only hears about 70, but it is the only way disputes determine what the “law of the land” is in all 50 states.

Here’s the ways disputes get to the Supreme Court:

• Death Penalty cases– All death penalty decisions are automatically reviewed by the US Supreme Court
• Petition for Writ of Certiorari-When a party is dissatisfied with the decision of a U.S. Court of Appeals or the highest court in a given state, they can apply to the Supreme Court. These cases typically involve conflicts in law, very Important and unusual cases, cases where different circuits have rendered conflicting decisions, or cases where a lower court disregards past precedents or involve questions of Constitutionality. The Supreme Court has complete discretion in choosing which cases they will hear. Once a petition (application) is received by the Court, the Court will review it and vote on whether to hear it. Certification of the writ (agreeing to hear the case) requires 4 of the 9 Justices to vote in favor of hearing the case.
• Disputes of Original Jurisdiction-The Supreme Court can hear a case as the original court in a few limited exceptions, generally involving disputes between the states, disputes between a state and foreign powers, or cases where a state is the Petitioner.

Parties interested in expressing their legal opinions on a pending action before the Supreme Court are allowed to file “amicus briefs” on behalf of their organizations/clients. These briefs can be filed both during the application (certification) process and during the preparation for oral arguments phase.

Prior to hearing oral arguments, the Justices get fully prepared in the history of the case. They obtain all the court documents and exhibits, and then each Justice, along with their law clerks review that material along with all the briefs before oral arguments are made. Oral arguments give the attorneys the opportunity to briefly summarize their case, but more importantly it gives them the opportunity to ask questions. After oral arguments are done, the Justices will meet in private conference just a few days later to discuss and vote on the case. The majority vote from that conference becomes the decision, and they begin preparation of their written decision, as well as any dissenting opinions. Although the decisions are made within days of oral arguments, most of the decisions are not released until May or June.  Once that decision is released, it sets precedent for all other courts in the country.

The Supreme Court is currently made up of 6 justices that were appointed by Republican presidents and considered to be conservative leaning. 3 of the justices appointed by Democrat presidents and considered to be liberal leaning. With the Court’s current majority of conservative justices, the chances for land use disputes and stricter interpretation of the Federal government’s authority is more favorable for not only BlueRibbon and UPLA, but also the State of Utah.

Here are some important cases that have recently been decided or pending before the Supreme Court

• West Virginia v EPA 2022- Introduced the Major Questions Doctrine that bars agencies from resolving questions of economic and political significance without clear statutory authorization. This decision specifically limited the EPAs authority unless they could prove the underlying statutory authority from Congress. This will place a limit on all administrative agencies.
• Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo 2024-Eliminated Chevron Deference Doctrine. The Chevon Deference came from a 1984 Supreme Court decision which required that lower courts give deference to administrative agencies as being the experts when a statutes were silent or ambiguous. It will require that Congress specifically define the authority an agency has, without that authority, they will be denied. Many suits never were actually heard by the Court due to application of Chevon. As a footnote, lead counsel for this case was Paul Clement, the same attorney in the below Utah v. United States case.
• Corner Post v, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 2024-Most claims for lawsuits often are limited by a statute of limitations, or time period that the suit must be filed. Prior to this case, the time period began when the law or rule was published. In this landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Statute period begins when the plaintiff is injured. This clear definition will enable matters previously barred by the statute of limitations to be heard in the courts.
• Seven County v Eagle County -To be heard during 2024-2025 session- Uinta County desired to construct a railroad line to connect the isolated Uinta basin with the national rail network. The proposal went through NEPA analysis and was approved in 2021. Eagle County, Colorado, and the Center for Biological Diversity challenged the Board’s decision in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, claiming the Board’s required NEPA analysis was deficient. The challengers insisted that the Board should have considered the new rail line’s potential effects on increased oil drilling in Utah and Colorado, as well as oil refining activities more than 1,000 miles away along the Gulf Coast.construction. The Supreme Court now has a chance to clarify the scope of NEPA review. The decision may have significant implications for a host of important agencies and the many industries that work with them.
• Utah v. United States– This case is pending Certification before the Court. It would answer the question whether BLM has the authority to hold unappropriated public lands indefinitely. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution specifically limits the powers of Congress, and holding land indefinitely falls outside these authorities. Utah is especially impacted because 70% (37.4 million acres) of Utah land is owned by the Federal government. Lands that have been appropriated such as for National Parks, Wilderness Areas, or National Monuments, or National Forests will not be affected. The suit will require the United States to transfer ownership of approximately 18.5 million acres. Lead Counsel for Utah is Paul Clement, one of the most respected and winningest attorneys practicing before the Supreme Court. Amicus Briefs are currently being accepted for this case.

Blueribbon Coalition is currently litigating important cases throughout the country, and UPLA believes that BlueRibbon is positioned the best to litigate these cases and others. Even though some of these cases may not directly affect Utah, wins elsewhere can be cited, so wins anywhere are important to our cause.

What is UPLA doing to support litigation?

• UPLA has principally aligned itself with BlueRibbon Coalition to litigate cases that will protect our rights for all users to access public lands. BlueRibbon has a paid professional staff to oversee and manage these efforts and also has retained the very best legal counsel
• UPLA will raise funds that will support litigation efforts, and make donations to the best efforts at protecting these rights.
• UPLA created a matching campaign in 2023 that resulted in a total donation of $112,000 to BlueRibbon Coalition for their legal defense fund.
• Because we are a volunteer driven organization without paid staff, UPLA has elected to support selected organizations in their litigation rather than acting on our own, but we may engage in other ways such as submitting Amicus Briefs.
• UPLA is available to speak at your organization or club’s meetings either in person or via Zoom. Contact us to schedule an update

How UPLA needs your help to support litigation efforts

• Join both UPLA and BlueRibbon Coalition-With every comment, call, or letter, mention your membership; this provides us with the ability to represent you in future legal actions
• Subscribe and read our newsletters and social media posts to stay informed
• Contribute as generously as you can when we ask for donations.
• Spread the word about pending cases and our fundraising efforts.

Litigation is one aspect of our strategy to protect your rights to access your public lands in the manner you choose, as long as you do so responsibly. Stay tuned to learn more about other strategies we are employing.