{"id":15831,"date":"2016-07-09T17:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T22:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=15831"},"modified":"2016-06-25T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:21:09","slug":"outdoor-mag-the-last-bastion-of-outdoor-outlaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/outdoor-mag-the-last-bastion-of-outdoor-outlaws\/","title":{"rendered":"(Outdoor Mag) The Last Bastion of Outdoor Outlaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: Fed up with tight National Park regulations\u2014no BASE-jumping, no slacklining, no fun!\u2014adventurers are getting cozy with a surprising new advocate: the Bureau of Land Management. Nowhere are the agency&#8217;s lenient recreation policies on better display than Moab, Utah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is present-day Moab: former uranium boomtown and current Superfund cleanup site, gateway to two national parks, 1.8 million acres of BLM land, countless miles of singletrack and off-roa<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">d trails, trad climbing, BASE jumping, slacklining, skydiving, and whitewater rafting, home to 5,100 year-round residents, and annual vacation hot spot for more than two million. I\u2019d come to immerse myself in what I\u2019d been told was either America\u2019s most insanely inclusive adventure destination or else a putrid distillation of everything vulgar about public-land use in America\u2014fleets of idling RV generators, swarms of dune buggies, open-air shooting ranges, expensive hunting expeditions, 40-plus BLM campgrounds (usually full), legions of mountain bikers, dirtbag climbers, and <a class=\"_58cn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/vanlife?source=feed_text&amp;story_id=1203364956354863\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;*N&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:104}\"><span class=\"_58cl\">\u202a#\u200e<\/span><span class=\"_58cm\">vanlife\u202c<\/span><\/a> wanderers seeking the enlightenment that Edward Abbey promised in his 1968 classic Desert Solitaire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"hero-inset__title heading__one white\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2092301\/no-restrictions-apply?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=facebookpost\">Click Here to Read the Article!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"hero-inset__title heading__one white\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/2092301\/no-restrictions-apply?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=facebookpost\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sketchyandy1.jpg\" alt=\"sketchyandy1\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sketchyandy1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sketchyandy1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"hero-inset__title heading__one white\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: Fed up with tight National Park regulations\u2014no BASE-jumping, no slacklining, no fun!\u2014adventurers are getting cozy with a surprising new advocate: the Bureau of Land Management. Nowhere are the agency&#8217;s lenient recreation policies on better display than Moab, Utah&#8230; This is present-day Moab: former uranium boomtown and current Superfund cleanup site, gateway to two national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15832,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions\/15832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}