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 ...
Utah’s unprecedented argument ... I’m fine with the map excluding the Uncompahgre lands from our FLPMA [Federal Land Policy and Management Act] lawsuit [in the Supreme Court].
About 70 percent of Utah’s total land area is under federal control. When Utah became a state, under the “Utah Enabling Act,” it said it would not control the lands in question.