Just unscrew it and slide it out...I think it was held on by like 4 screws? Slides to the front if I recall correctly. Was very easy to remove on mine

 

...huh? Come down to Pa and show me

Yours came off easy proably because you shredded it to pieces climbing over one of those ginormous Northern Vermont Boulders

Zack, I swear Land Rover built the chassis around this damn splash guard.