A new800-page study released by the Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office argues that Utah could afford the management costs that would come with acquiring the more than 30 million acres of public lands now controlled by the federal government. (Elaine Taylor UPR)
Utah Assistant Attorney General Tony Rampton, newly appointed as Director of Public Lands Litigation, says Utah’s current efforts to gain control of federal lands must avoid the mistakes of the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and '80s. Meanwhile, former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, speaking in a teleconference hosted by the National Wildlife Federation, says such a transfer “would roll back 100 years of public lands progress." (Ami Joi O’Donoghue KSL)
And the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is up with television ads opposing the idea.
On Thursday’s AU we’ll ask you what you think. And we’ll be talking with Tony Rampton and a representative from SUWA.
