OK, after skimming thru the Wilderness Management Proposal I got here's what does or doesn't affect us as 4wd users of these areas. Most of the Approved Roads(ARs) remain open, a good thing, with a few closures I don't think really matter to us. So I'm going to list whats up in each of WMAs.
Jimbilnan & Pinto Valley WMAs: Echo Wash Road, AR102, remains open and is the northern boundry for the Jimbilnan WMA. Boathouse Road,AR97, is cherry stemed and remains open.
It is actually the boundry betwen the 2 WMAs. Bitter Springs is unaffected by any of this as it lays north and west of these WMA boundrys.
Black Canyon & Eldorado WMAs: AR59, AR58 & AR58a are all open until ending in hiking trailheads, these are in the Boy Scout Canyon area. Burro Wash remains open
and is the boundry road between the 2 WMAs. Yucca Camp Road, AR51, is open until the hiking trailhead which is the way Scuba Steve showed it to me and I've done it since so no change there. Some trials north of SR165 and Nelson remain open as they are south of the Eldorado WMA but watch for boundry markers as you head north of 165.
Ireteba Peaks WMA: Aztec Wash/Knob Hill Road aka Electic Avenue, AR42, remains open
and is the northern boundry of this WMA. Rockefeller Road, AR32, & Opal Mtn Road, AR33, are the souther boundry and remain open also.
Nellis Wash, Sprit Mtn & Bridge Canyon WMAs: Empire Wash Road, AR22, is cherry stemed and remains open
. However the last section of White Rock Road, AR 21, will be closed to motor vehicles. Last time I was down there this section was pretty much washed away and of little interest so I call it No Big Deal. Christmas Tree Pass Road, AR20,will be cherry stemed and remain open
along with the parking for Pipe Springs Road & Sacatone Wash. The parking for Grapevine Canyon reamains unchanged also. Lower Grapevine Road, AR13, will be closed where it comes off of AR9 but again last time I was there the road as trash anyway. Upper Bridge Mtn Road, AR18, where it starts running north off of SR163 will remain open only to the NRA boundry. It's being closed due to quads & dirtbikes using it to illeagly access the WMA. I've not been up there in years so I cann't say what the road conditon is but any vehicles in Park Service managed areas are supposed to be street legal so this is in my view just a few knuckleheads ruining this for the rest of us.
That's what I get out of all 297 pages and now I'm going to go take some advil for this headache and let me eyes rest.