Sponsors of the rally included Utah Shared Access Alliance or USA-ALL and the Blue Ribbon Coalition, both supporters of vehicle use for access and recreation on public lands.

Dustin Stanworth, representing USA-ALL, told the crowd that the organization's membership would no longer "tolerate apathy or dismissal of our concerns" by elected officials and others.

"Land managers and elected officials who fail to see the importance of motorized access to public lands had better wake up," Stanworth read from a prepared statement. "The radical environmentalists would have the public believe the scum of the earth use motorized vehicles on public lands. Well this assault from what we call the 'gang-greens' is nothing short of a war on motorized access. Their strategy is fear and propaganda."

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