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Recently, both the Chicago Group of the Sierra Club and their in-state Adopter Partners, Utah State University's Sierra Student Coalition Chapter, completed their yearly adopter field visits to Muddy Creek. The Chicago adopters, both young and older, spent time getting to know their area by exploring the canyons of the Behind the Reef area and Muddy Creek drainage near Tomsich Butte. The Chicago group made outstanding progress in building a relationship with the Bureau of Land Management by inviting the Price BLM Field Office's Wilderness Manager to join them during their unit visit. The Chicago Adopters received tremendous insights to the local BLM's management plans of the Muddy Creek Area, and began steps setting up next year's visit to include a service project placing Wilderness Study Area signs along Muddy Creek's WSA boundary. Way to go Chicago! The
Utah State University adopters also made an aggressive field visit
to a place heavily threatened by All-Terrain Vehicles: the Behind
the Reef area of Muddy Creek. The brave wilderness adopters of USU
chose Easter Weekend for their unit visit-when more ATVs are present
than any other time of year. They were determined to protect the
wilderness characteristics of their unit by documenting any illegal
impacts they encountered. Consequently, the Gods of Wilderness were
with them and the ATV crowd was chased away by a freak snowstorm.
However, our much tougher USU adopters stuck out the storm. Heroes!
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