Feds reviewing BLM evidence from ATV protest ride

Photographs, recordings and other documentation of a weekend protest ride up southern Utah's off-limits Paria River have been referred to the U.S. attorney's office. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management coordinated with the attorney's office before the much-publicized protest, BLM spokeswoman Lola Bird said Monday. BLM agents jotted down license numbers, photographed riders and recorded potential violations from the ride, which drew about 500 to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Kane County. That evidence now has been "formally" handed over to U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman. His spokeswoman, Melodie Rydalch, declined to comment Monday. Kanab resident and protest organizer Shawna Cox said agents took pictures of the licence plates on the 300 or so all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles on the riverbed as well as the plates on vehicles parked near the old Paria town site...Salt Lake Tribune