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Monticello Field Office

In the Spotlight

• Monticello Proposed Resource Management Plan/ Final Environmental Impact Statement Released September 5, 2008

• 2009 Season San Juan River Applications Now Available

• IBLA Affirms Jeep Safari Route Decisions
On July 31, 2008, the Interior Board of Land Appeals affirmed decisions made by the Moab and Monticello Field Offices to renew special recreation permits authorizing the Red Rock 
4-Wheelers to conduct the annual Moab Jeep Safari and Labor Day Campout.  For the Moab Field Office, the decision also applies to all other organized group and commercial use of the Jeep Safari Routes. These decisions, dating from 2006, were appealed by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.  See IBLA 2007-244, 2008-100 for details.

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The Monticello Field Office is located in the southeast corner of Utah and is part of the Colorado Plateau region. Dominating the landscape near Monticello are the Abajo Mountains, BLM land surrounds this huge monolith.

South of the Abajos is the Comb Ridge Monocline, a major crustal uplift about 80 miles in length. Nearby this major uplift is Grand Gulch, which cuts a serpentine swath through Cedar Mesa.

The Anasazi Indians left a legacy that includes hundreds of cliff dwellings and thousands of pictographs and petroglyphs. Muley Point Overlook sits on a high rim of Cedar Mesa and offers panoramic sweep across Monument Valley and the San Juan River country far below.

Monticello Field Office
365 North Main Street
Monticello, Utah  84535
(435) 587-1500

   
Last updated: 10-30-2008