Arch Canyon protest rally at BLM building turns into campaign event

Monticello • Roughly 100 people gathered at the Bureau of Land Management’s Monticello field office parking lot on Saturday morning, ostensibly to protest the potential banning of motorized recreation in Arch Canyon. They heard quite a bit about government overreach and the need to fight for access to public lands, but they also enthusiastically listened to campaign speeches from gubernatorial candidate Phil Lyman and Lynn Jackson, a Moab resident who hopes to fill Lyman’s District 69 seat in the Utah House of Representatives in this year’s election. Arch Canyon is...