Hemmings Daily: Bonneville racers accuse BLM of dragging its feet

Photo by ceajaegirl. After Bureau of Land Management officials urged patience and recommended another study of the shrinking salt at last week's Bonneville Salt Flats summit in Salt Lake City, racers in attendance at the summit said they felt undermined by the bureau and that bureau officials weren't acting fast enough to save the historic speedway. "We came away from that meeting bitterly disappointed," said Louise Ann Noeth, spokeswoman for the Utah Alliance, an organization created to represent Bonneville r [View in Browser | Subscribe] [Hemmings Daily] Tuesday, May 24, 2016 [Bonneville racers accuse BLM of dragging its feet after plans for further salt flats study] [Bonneville racers accuse BLM of dragging its feet after plans for further salt flats study] Posted by Daniel Strohl - Photo by ceajaegirl. 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