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Show way veaicles during the daylight hours. In addition, Rowley said, the BLM is preparing an environmental assessment of the area as part of a management plan. When the plan is completed, it will go dicates that the only place where through the usual public hearing the county commission can over- process. Dave Carter, Juab County ride the closure is along county said he favored the cloSheriff, roads in the area. sure. Those who drive along the Eyre mentioned, however, that to make the closure permanent, beach at Yuba tend to drive too the BLM must follow the criteria fast and tenters often lay sleepset by the law, which would in- ing bags right on the sand along shore, Carter said. We had two clude public hearings. people run over last Memorial Most of the 17 people attending Day, said Carter. the public hearing favored the Others ignore or take down emergency closure, and also fences on private property and wanted it made permanent. still others chase cattle and It was the contention of Commissioner Richard Brough that the BLM was acting outside the law and trampling on the rights of the commission. Brough said he thought the BLM should have consulted with the county commission before making the emergency closure. He thought it was time commissioners started asserting their rights to be consulted and thought it was just the principal of the thing. Rex Rowley, manager of the BLMs House Range Resource Area, explained the emergency closure, which began just prior to the Easter holiday this year. People are still able to camp and drive their cars and trucks along the beach to where they are camping, said Rowley, but they will not be allowed to drive offroad vehicles along the beach. The area west of the reservoir, trample wheat grass needed for to build a fires, he continued. Another problem is night huntIt is a terrible situation on ing, said Monroe. ATV drivers go Memorial Day, said the sheriff. out at night hunting rabbits and Young children play in the sand cause problems for land owners.; and ATV drivers rush up and The closure should have been down the beaches at 40 miles per taken 10 years ago and, barring hour. that, should have been put into Vernon Monroe of Scipio said effect at least five years ago, said he and his family own the largest Monroe. Private property owners No amount of private land at Yuba, and they want the BLM to close Trespassing signs are meaningthe land to ATVs on a permanent less, he said. They take the signs and build fires with them, he basis. The people from the Wasatch continued. Tve had guns pulled on me out Front come down to Yuba and leave their brains in their lunch there, said Monroe. You dont box, said Monroe. He said he go and try to protect your proppresently has $1,500 worth of erty yourself. Carter agreed. A no trespass- fence laying on the ground. They take the fence posts and use them Please turn to page 5 BLM had right to close Yuba forage, said Carter. Lake to ORVs, attorney says The Bureau of Land Management was within its rights to close Yuba Lake State Park to all offroad recreational vehicles on an emergency basis, the Juab County Commission heard at a public hearing Monday. The hearing was called by the county commission to review the ELMS action, and to take public comment on the closure. Don Eyre, Jr., county attorney, said that according to his research, the decision was within the legal power of the BLM acting as administrators of the pub- lic land. 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