re: If you enjoy dispersed camping,the Biden administration is trying to limit it.

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I think this is all pertaining to an area around Moab that is getting loved to death by off readers. It might need some restrictions to keep from ruining it.

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I suspect you are 100% correct. MOAB gets ABUSED. The only thing that keeps it remotely accessible to ORVs is the fact it is mostly rock and gets little rain...if it were like the east coast and covered in dirt and got 40 inches of rain a year it would be so rutted up that no one could get more than 100 feet off a paved road. The nuts on BLM land who think it is a good idea to have what amounts to a mud bogging competition in the middle of a road that has existed for a couple of hundred years and may still have wagon tracks from the days of the Oregon Trail present will boggle the mind. I have seen 40 foot fifth wheel travel trailers with a 3/4 ton truck both buried to the frame in mud 500 feet from where they decided to hit that wet spot....and those ruts will stay in that landscape for a LONG time....and the next idiot will come along and make some more just like them a few feet over. I have seen several acres of land stripped of vegetation and rutted up so bad you would think there had been some sort of tank battle going on recently...when there was a perfectly good road around the damp spot that anyone with any sense would have stayed on.

I came across a truck and about a 35 foot center console boat with twin 300's on it about 15 miles off the paved highway on an oil field road one time mired up to the frame of the truck. Dude was taking that boat to the Pecos River, he claimed. For those unaware the Pecos has enough water in some places to float a leaf. Most of it runs underground. I have no idea what those people intended to do with that boat in the Pecos but it was not going to work unless they meant to simply abandon it. That sort of thing is not unusual. Folks lose their minds when they have thousands of acres of public land at their disposal and there ain't no way no one can police all of it.