GRAND COUNTY, Utah — Redge Johnson stood at the fork in a rutted dirt road, gazing across an empty desert at a mammoth red rock butte. To the right curved a route that travelers in 4x4s or off ...

On its face, the complaint is benign — Utah is simply asking to manage half of the federally-owned land in the state. But it’s much bigger than that. The case is a Trojan horse that could ...

And it’s growing at an annual average of 8.4% — the highest of any state. Utah’s world-famous national public lands draw millions of visitors to the state each year, who then spend money at ...