PUBLIC PROTEST COVERAGE! MATTS OFF-ROAD RECOVERY CALL OUT TO STOP THEM! 

This just plain out sucks! Also let’s get these guy to 1,000k subs and hope for more videos and updates!

As always, the people we elect only think about what benefits them. Thanks Mat for bringing this to the people and thanks to all the people that showed up. Remember the elected who think this is a good idea on their re-election. Great work

I really like the BLM comment about "tortois habitat." I've seen motirized recreation land in Southern California set aside for tortois habitat because of Sierra Club pressure. The OHVs were kick out. Then housing developers decided they wanted the land. Developers gave the Sierra Club enough money to buy them off and houses were built. Now the tortoises didn't matter. SO WATCH OUT...!!!

Once houses are built you are inevitably going to get home owners complaining about the dust or noise or something, from the trails.

Not from Utah but I appreciate all of the work going into protecting the land you all care about.

It’s not only the water that you need to be concerned with but also the power grid. These 2 things the politicians and developers never worry about.

Good on yall to stand up!! Proud of the younger folks,awesome job.

Dig deep and you'll find a local political player, probably on council or a commision who will stand to gain financially at some point if this development goes ahead. They are always there looking for personal profit.

If you have Matt with you I think that the campaign will be successful. Is having a plethora of subscribers worldwide!

Cleetus Mcfarland just had to go through the same thing a developer wants to build a bunch of homes right beside the freedom factory and Bradenton Motorsports Park and everyone knows if that happens the people will complain about the noise and the places will be shut down

Big shout out to the BLM employee explaining the process. As a fellow federal employee, it makes me proud to see my counterparts stepping into a hostile situation with patience and professionalism.

Elon Musk has finally come to our rescue, if really he can turn SVB to a digital currency bank with good security, its gonna help lives

Thanks for posting this. Real/factual info helps understand true concerns and what needs to be done to address it.

It all depends on how much "Kick Backs" the local politicians are getting.

Thanks for the video and for all the attendees standing up for public lands.

Every time a developer is allowed into areas adjacent to an airport, race track, etc eventually the pre-existing activity is challenged and often has to close. Every single time it comes up even if there is some 'agreement'. Never allow it.

I'm from Pa but I still sent a email. I hope it all works out sand hollow seems like a great place even though I may never see it in person due to a severe medical condition. I'm a ex=drag racer and I see this happening to tracks that have been around for years. People move in knowing there is a track then they want the track gone due to noise. Thanks for sharing the wrecker games.

Thank you for covering this!! This video popped up in my feed and here I am! I emailed blm about this and my view. I’m from northwest Montana and saw so many trails, logging areas and farms turned into subdivisions; it’s sickening. We established Montanans For Multiple Use to fight back. I wrote to Dixie 4Wheel Drive and Matt about making a video of the area and running the trails and showcase the area, not just the hardcore rock crawler trails and taking a bunch of RU-vidrs along and flood social media with this.

you guys better fight like hell

I learn to drive in a Dunebuggy in the Oregon Sandune’s in the late 1960s or early 1970s my family did until just before high school when it nolonger became affordable anymore. Most of the places we used to go are no longer accessible to motor vehicles and are heavily regulated in some cases are the reach of the average person. I hope our public lands could be protected for future generations to use.

I always thought state park property couldn't be sold to private people. WTH!!

Right there where everybody likes to play and everything they want to build houses and there anywhere else they can build houses around there people that have way too much money on the ones that are doing it they don't like people have fun they already have everything they ever wanted it's not fun no more I'll be praying for you guys man. God will open the doors they're always

Where are our Washington County Commissioners on this? Seem conspicuous by their absence! Don't they have the power and authority to stop this?

All the old high rollers wanting houses there don’t realize how loud and dusty it will be by their house 😂. They will complain the whole time. Never ending cycle ugh😅

Should show the revenue those trails bring into the local economy, so this land swap could financially damage the local community.

You are done for.. You got Cali folks in your area now and they want that land.. I know because its happening to my area!

0:00 intro and overview 0:22 First Local 1:18 Britney with Lite Brite 2:38 Tom Tom with MORR 2:43 Matt and Kevin (Lite Brite) 7:21 Second Local 7:41 BLM official 17:37 Local 18:02 Out of State Visitor 18:44 milt with Dixie 4 wheel drive 20:12 story about Dixie 4 wheel drive 22:20 more Kevin with Lite Brite RU-vid channel 25:15 BLM official 29:23 personal thoughts

Hopefully the Blue Ribbon Coalition will be helping you in the fight for your trail use rights

I sent a message to keep the beauty of Utah by keeping Sand Hollow and other recreational areas as they are.

Matt, I did email that this place does not get developed. I pray that it goes your way and this piece of property is for all the people not just a few. Blessings

Get the guys name out into the public and expose him for trying to do this..... Get it all over social media, out into the community everywhere.....

If all the viewers could register on a site to show how many people love the place, even if we only see on line. I’m in Canada and been following folks stuff at sand hollow

How Could Land Management approve any New Housing with Recent worries about Drought and lakes are drying up

Hey Matt I may not live in UT but it definitely sounds like a major issue, I hope you have a good outcome from this

I bet the work for getting sewer systems into all that rock will be shoddy work at best and very, very expensive at the most. It will be very hard to get utilities into that neighborhood because of the rocky landscape, therefore they should pick an area away from the rocks and such.

WE~THE~PEOPLE... UNITED WE STAND... UNITED WE ARE STRONG 💪

I have been to Utah and to Matt’s shop…. Some of the most beautiful land God ever made… absolutely ridiculous that we would even discuss developing it.

Throw a spotted owl out there…they will never build anything!

It was great to see the turnout, now hopefully it can stop the deal

won't be long until those homeowners petition for a noise ordinance if they get it

Just be careful because if they get this they will eventually close Sand Hollow down. They start with noise complaints and dust. We have Cal 4 Wheel in CA to help fight this stuff. Goodluck!👍

My dad and I were just up there for the Wrecker Games! Super sad they're trying to plant houses up in Sand Hallow! We wheeled the West Rim trail and it was amazing! 😔

you can bet Robber!! Romney has his hands in this!!!

Keep up the fight! Politicians are tricky and don't play fair. Make a list and vote out the council members that are in on the "land steal"!

Great job Matt and crew. Don't know how you found out about before BLM acted on it. Here in NM they make changes and then notify the public so we are not given a chance to voice our opinions.

Once the first house is built its all over for that recreation area for anything other than bike paths, walking trails, etc. end of the day most public hate any kind of motorsports period.

I just moved to st George and bought a utv just for sand hollow and I'm new so I ride the west rim trail and I would hate for anything to happen to any part of the park and would have been at this meeting if I knew about it. I'm glad people turned out. Thanks for filming.

Thanks for the coverage for those of us who care but can’t be there 👍🏼

Thank you so much for mentioning our Native Brothers and Sisters and referring to wondering if this is how they felt! "All in the name of PROGRESS". Progress is good in many circumstances, like human equality and rights. This kind of progressivism typically means GREED, and how rich someone can get by doing this! That reservoir/water shed is not only going to be used for the current needs and concerns of existing communities, it's main reasoning or adjective is for future development in that are period. Saying thing's like this is only to get you soft too the idea and get you to come to a agreement. Once that is done they have full control of everything. They can and will change, amend the agreement and ultimately at some point building will start. A agreement signed and cemented in concrete does NOT mean permanent! Remember concrete can be broken and breaks very easy. You will see developments in that area of concern if a agreement is signed. Don't be butter cups be those massive BOULDERS you crawl over with your rigs. Boulders are many many times hard to move and crack like a signature is. The government lies period! Learn from history they never truly do what the say, sign or promise. They always had a way to change it for their benefit. Reflect on our Native Brothers and Sisters. In the name of PROGRESS they slaughtered, raped, ripped families apart, banned them from publicly using their language, practicing their beliefs and countless other things to make them BEND THE KNEE! Once the the Dawes Act, Tribal Governance an all agreement of Lies was signed and done all promises and agreements were off the board and not upheld. TEARS of BLOOD have fallen on that exact ground so please learn from the broken promises and make our Native Americans proud by standing your ground to keep the land fee for all, nothing less nothing more don't give up even a handful of sand.

There's gotta be a limit on how much development the Virgin River can sustain. It is a drop in the bucket compared to the Colorado River and it's in big trouble.

I wish people would quit calling it federal land, it is public land managed by a federal bureaucracy.

Thanks for taking us to the meeting with you. Very informative!

Know who you're voting for......and where they're getting their campaign funding from. Pretty safe to say this was signed, sealed and delivered when this developer wrote a campaign check to whoever the elected reps who have a say on this are.

Thank you for covering this!

I watched basically the same thing happen in Chicago with small airports in the late 50's and early 60's. There are no more small airports there! This is NOT progress. I sure hope you all can stop this from happening!

Great job on the video! For sure a last minute thing. I've already sent an email to that BLM address. For those not in Utah (like me here in Texas), this does impact YOU too, this BLM land belongs to all of us (US citizens), so you sure do have a say in what happens....to put houses out there....just wrong! Also, please don't be mad/angry/annoyed at any of the BLM employees...they are just doing their jobs.

So it's a national park so it should be protected by law set buy government in Washington to add houses where there is a massive water shortage in that area it makes no sense to build homes make a bigger problem for water supply

We've been taught not to protect our communities. This included strangers coming in dictating how you live.

Land building builders do not stop, searching for opportunities to grab the 💵 . Thanks to everyone making their voices heard. Too many short-sighted changes; for the sake of building empires of power and wealth. {The value of a recreational area has no actual dollar price tag, it is priceless}.

I've heard something similar had happened in the past in New Mexico, Rancher had some property that had little value, but the Government wanted it for environmental reasons. A swap was done where the Rancher got some prime real estate (part of, I was told has been developed) and the government got some land that had little value but swapping it helped to protect the environment. The Rancher made out. Lesson: Follow the money.

Awesome video that shows many of the details concerning this matter. Kudos to all who took the time to show up and support protecting these activities. Provided us with insight to both sides of this matter as well. WTG !!!

Sadly this sceario is so common, that these developers know full well what will happen, they just dont care and play dumb. One approach I had seen was to engage the developers in curtailing the development to cater to the surrounding outdoor activity or 'track'. For example, if building next to a drag strip. Include a sort of community center or pviliion that provides services to the track/sport/neighborhood. This can be seen as a profit center, and suddenly you're speaking the developers language.

2:20 Just what's happening now to "Clettus Mcfarland's "Freedom Factory Race track in Fla...good luck.

The problem as I see it is lack of water due to overwhelming the area due to growth. I love watching these channels from Utah for the scenery and I have always wanted to visit the state. I will never visit a SW state due to limited resources so I get to see everything from my home. A reservoir is not going to fix any water issues and it would almost seem like this landowner is trying to gain off of recent attention gained from content creators. With what I have heard in this video, I would not look to move to the area since prices will go up considerably and then the water projects will eventually fail and send prices through the floor. 👽

Awesome job guys man way to fight for what is right

Thank You for helping to get this out! Wish the showing of people had been even bigger, but "The County" scheduled two other public input meetings AT THE SAME TIME! That divided the numbers of people that could attend each meeting. "Divide and conquer"! Lousy

There is so much open space and derelict areas, but they want to take a park area that is well used? I guess they always want to do it the easy way instead of clearing areas that are not being used and building there..

The Chief of Police, in St George, Utah Made $204,000.00 in 2020. Richard Farnsworth E in 2020 was employed in City of St. George and had annual salary of $204,847 according to public records. This salary is 746 percent higher than average and 2,221 percent higher than median salary in City of St. George. When Fascism Comes to Utah...It Won't Come With a Mustache and a Swastika...It Will Come With a Badge.

Keep fighting this is happening all over the world

In 2020, the City Manager of St George, Utah Made $186,492.00. This is Why Gov't is Approving Housing and Sale of Your land. To Pay for the Salaries, of These Gov't carpet Baggers. It's the People's fault That This is Happening. Adam Lenhard M in 2020 was employed in City of St. George and had annual salary of $186,492 according to public records. This salary is 670 percent higher than average and 2,013 percent higher than median salary in City of St. George.

Unfortunately whoever has the most money wins. I used to live in a small town until about 20 years ago Back then you couldn't build because it was all classified as a green belt while a developer came in with lots of money guess what It's no longer a greenbelt While I can't say that the only GREEN our electric officials cares about Isn't the color of the trees that they mowed down. They are now starting stage 5 We have about 15000 new residents with another plan 10000 Are once beautiful small town now sucks Not to mention what it's doing to our lake. Just yesterday I seen 2 people throwing their trash out of their car into the parking lot this is the kind of people it's bringing. I gave them Royal S*** But they just laughed at me then drove off.

There is some law about government purchasing property in the interest of public domain. Why doesn't the community and local government due such?

The lower Property is Below Southern Parkway Hwy 7 and looks to include The Funnel, Horseshoe Slingshot, and maybe down to The Toll Booth.

This happened in New Jersey. They shut down the tracks at English town where top fuel dragsters were run. They complied with what they asked but still lost the fight. How can they take that land for houses?

This area has a very limited water supply. There has been talk about bringing water from Lake Powell which has been low for the past several years. In spite of this, they continue to build.

Always going after Riding Areas !

It's the people from cali coming out to buy the land to build houses same thing is happening here in AZ we are fighting to keep land from these people so we still have trails to use....where i live was next to farm land now a company from california bought it and now theres houses and comercial buildings next to me and it sucks looks like crap

Dig deep and you'll find a local political player, probably on council or a commision who will stand to gain financially at some point if this development goes ahead. They are always there looking for personal profit.

This happened quite a bit in Arizona. Build more houses with no water..

I wouldn't trust any government official have them put in writing and find a good attorney to see if there can be any legal contracts wrote up that will hold them to what you would agree to, on BLM land.

All they do is take off-road trails they never open more. Remember that !!

Excellent coverage, thank you

I'm not from San Holo but I'll sign the petition for if out-of-staters can vote

BLM LAND is public land,managed by BLM.the land is maintained with public funds (TAXES).IT BELONG S TO THE PUBLIC!!!

I’ve seen similar things happen as a city grows and the land around an industrial park is cheap so it’s developed with housing. Now as people move in they start complaining about the noise and the noisy or smelly industries that have been there for decades are forced out!

The BLM manager said something about potential easements across the parcel to be disposed of. My question would be would those easements be in perpetuity and would they be exclusive to the BLM. You want both... AND, that easement has to be a part of the land patent transferring the land out of public ownership.

I know what you’re going through. They took out in Ohio and Saint Claireville, rumble on the ridge and two other small ATV and UTV parks because of residential and industrial parks.

Isn't the water drying up out there? If so why are they trying to make a resivor?

Shame on the land developer for attempting this. All for greed. Nothing for preservation. And shame on the county too for even allowing this to get this far.

That’s what I was thinking The Native Americans lost their rights to the land and now, ironically, the local people are…… History repeats…..

Great turnout!

With all that talking, I'm all confused. Isn't that "BLM" land? Meaning it belongs to the citizens (the taxpayers)? If so, I personally don't see how a land swap deal would ever be approved seeing there are A LOT of citizens in this country that would be completely against it. If it wasn't the VERY FAMOUS place that it is for recreational use, then I might think differently, but as popular as it is I just don't see it happening. If they want that gentleman's land for a turtle sanctuary, then the government should buy that land from him, or the state should give him the $12 million he wants for it, because the income the state brings in every year from visitors coming to visit and ride those trails more than covers the $12 million that man wants for his land. If what I've said makes any sense. lol.

imminent domain. For the people???????

Thank goodness they didn't send a bureaucrat. Helpful people with information are a good thing to have. At least they're accessible and appear genuine.

Thing is more and more people are moving out to St George Utah because the taxes are low, compared to other places hell I even looked at moving out there because of that and property taxes its just way cheaper than where I live now.

Thanks for posting this.

Standing armies eating out the peoples substance! Standing armies dont all wear a badge. Local government are also standing armies.

Someone please do this for Pismo / Oceano Dunes. It's never about the environment. It's all a money hungry land grab.

The reservoir is needed, depending on "where"; houses on West Rim are NOT! When the bulldozers show up WE WILL TOO!

Keep the developers at bay and keep our land open and free of mans creations. Onward!