The BLM’s strategy for restoring closed routes or trespasses will be accomplished as rapidly as funding permits. Sensitive resources in immediate danger or those that have been damaged by vehicle trespass would be a high priority for restoration. Typically, the restoration will be limited to that portion of the route or trespass that is in line of sight from an open route. The proposal for restoration will include:
Not repairing washed-out routes.
Using natural barriers, such as large boulders.
Using rocks and dead and down wood to obscure the route entryway.
Employing vertical mulching and pitting.
Ripping up the route bed and reseeding with vegetation natural to that area.
Utilizing fences or barriers.
Providing signage, including information to OHV users, on the need and value of resource protection.
Each route will be evaluated, and the least intrusive method will be used based on local topography, soils, hydrology, and vegetation; and protection of natural and cultural resources.
Aircraft overflights, including low-level helicopter and fixed-wing overflights by other agencies, and other use of the airspace over public lands, are not regulated by the BLM. These uses occur now and would continue.