SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Environmental groups are challenging the U.S. government’s decision to reopen a large swath of southern Utah’s badlands to off-road vehicles. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and two other conservation organizations filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing ATV traffic will harm the endangered plants. The lands had […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge will tour 15 disputed southern Utah routes crossing public land to help determine whether to surrender these federal rights of way to Kane County. But The Salt Lake Tribune reports details of that tour, set for this fall, will remain under wraps in an apparent […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New legislation from a pair of Republican Utah lawmakers would create the Jurassic National Monument at a dinosaur fossil site and create a conservation area around the rugged San Rafael Swell. Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis said Wednesday their sweeping new land reform […]
