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CR's Lil' Toy
The hinterlands of Utah are littered with creative, well-intentioned ideas for resolving the Balkanized wilderness debate.
County commissioners, several members of Utah's congressional delegation and former Gov. Mike Leavitt have tried to free the logjam over how much of Utah's desert and redrock country should be protected from development and motor vehicles under the Wilderness Preservation Act.
All attempts have failed, mainly because the Utah Wilderness Coalition has refused to budge from its original bill for 5.7 million acres of wilderness on public lands administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. That bill since has grown to 9.1 million acres.
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County commissioners, several members of Utah's congressional delegation and former Gov. Mike Leavitt have tried to free the logjam over how much of Utah's desert and redrock country should be protected from development and motor vehicles under the Wilderness Preservation Act.
All attempts have failed, mainly because the Utah Wilderness Coalition has refused to budge from its original bill for 5.7 million acres of wilderness on public lands administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. That bill since has grown to 9.1 million acres.
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