SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a blow to the state of Utah in a lawsuit involving environmental groups. The Deseret News reports the high court decided Monday to let stand an order allowing  two conservation organizations to intervene in the contentious, long-running case. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance says the case is about who controls federal public lands in Utah. They say the state is claiming stream bottoms and cow paths as highways, in an effort to make the land ineligible for Congressional wilderness designation. States and counties say the byways are an integral and vital part of ranching, mining and residents’ access.