Just in time for the busy Memorial Day weekend, off-roaders may return to the public lands encircling southern Utah’s Factory Butte</a>, otherworldly badlands that have been closed to cross ...

(Photo courtesy of Ray Bloxham | Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance) This photo shot in 2017 shows tracks left by illegal off-roading near Factory Butte, pictured in the distance.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Environmental groups are challenging the U.S. government’s decision to reopen a large swath of southern Utah’s badlands to off-road vehicles. The Southern Utah Wilderness ...

Their groundbreaking discovery came in the form of a 94-million-year-old mosasaur found in the gray shale badlands of the National Park Service Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in southern Utah.

John Wesley Powell and other explorers roughly documented the geology of southern Utah’s badlands in the late 19th century, their work setting the stage for later fossil fuel exploration and ...

Environmental groups are challenging the U.S. government's decision to reopen a large swath of southern Utah's badlands to off-road vehicles.

UNF professor, team discover 94-million-year-old mosasaur fossils in southern badlands of Utah. By William Clayton, Action News Jax. June 26, 2023 at 6:55 pm EDT. Enter Fullscreen Expand.