Mountain Bikers Push to Ride Through Wilderness

"Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed..." - Wallace Stegner

The goal of the Wilderness Act, now celebrating its 60th birthday, was to set aside a small proportion of public land in America from human intrusion. The founders said some places deserved to be free from motorized, mechanized, and other intrusions to protect wildlife and wild lands.

But now, a handful of mountain bikers have partnered with a senator from Utah to gut the Wilderness Act.

This June, the Sustainable Trails Coalition, a mountain biking organization, cheered a...