If you intend to sell a video or a still picture photographed on public lands, you will most likely need a permit from the appropriate land manager. this would include federal, state, or county lands. Private-land owners make their own rules.
Proof of insurance is a standard policy for public-land managers. What is unique to the BLM's Moab Office is adding a daily rental fee for each area you videotape inside the same Moab BLM area. that would be like doubling the one-day arches national Park fee because a picture was taken during sunrise at one arch and at a different arch during sunset. Go figure.
We picked up our signed permit from the local BLM office upon arrival in Moab. By obtaining an application and checklist from the BLM website, faxing the completed application back to the Moab BLM office, and phoning in credit card information for payment, the whole process took less than 30 days. armed with a valid permit and a tank of gas, our crew of three was ready to go wheeling in Moab.
Our first stop was Pritchett Canyon. the best perspective of an off-road trail can be shown by combining video from several camera angles. on our Moab trip, there were two cameramen walking the trail, and I occasionally pulled out a camera. the Pritchett Canyon trailhead starts just south of town from kane Creek Road. the private-property owner who owns the campground at the trailhead charges $2 to cross his property. the campground wasn't there in 1993, and now the ledge you encounter immediately after leaving the campground area is gone. too many people were rolling off the roadbed and ending up in the wash below. the wash is in a Wilderness Study area and between having vehicles fall off the trail and backing up into the private campground, it was not a good situation, so the ledge was removed.