(SALT LAKE CITY)—A U.S. appeals court has ruled wilderness groups cannot intervene to help the government fight a lawsuit filed by Kane County seeking ownership of two dirt roads crossing federal lands. Monday, the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that because the federal government was fully committed to fighting the lawsuit, there is no assistance required from the Sierra Club, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance or The Wilderness Society. Kane County is seeking title to Bald Knoll Road, which runs for nine miles along an edge of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Vehicles need high clearance to travel the route, which is on BLM land near a national forest. The county also wants title to seven-mile-long Mill Creek Road, which also crosses federal land.