A pair of land bills advanced on unanimous votes from the Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee on ...
Public lands are still in peril — along with the soul of the West,” writes Kate Groetzinger, the communications manager at ...
The state in August filed a lawsuit asking the court to declare the federal Bureau of Land Management’s ownership of 18.5 million acres of land in Utah unconstitutional.
Utah’s lawsuit argued that the U.S. Constitution requires Washington to “dispose” of “unappropriated” BLM land, not give it to Utah. The advocates fear that could mean forcing its sale ...
Utah’s senators have joined forces to safeguard some of the state’s historic roads from closure as a result of Bureau of Land ...
As Utahns increasingly seek solace in the state's breathtaking wilderness, they often find no vacancy at campgrounds.
“Building roads, moving cattle and cleaning up campgrounds all require ... able and willing to challenge any BLM land management decisions that harm Utah," state leaders said.
Utah had asked the court to consider turning over 18.5 million acres of BLM land in Utah to the state, but most watchers understood that an affirmative ruling by the Supreme Court could lead to the ...
The legislation, from Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee, invokes an 1866 law. A coalition of Utah Republicans has filed legislation invoking a 19th century mining law to block the Bureau ...
The plan designates more than 1,300 miles of motorized travel routes in the San Rafael Swell and closes 158 miles of now-open routes to all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes and off-road trucks.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah is no longer asking the ... lands within Utah” — 18.5 million acres of land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.
The Supreme Court is turning back a push by Utah to wrest control of vast areas of public land from the federal government.