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This public land doesn’t fit very well, can I return it?

Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz wants to sell a few million acres of public land, saying that these lands “should be returned to private ownership.” Recently, Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune did a “historical title search” to see if he could determine exactly to whom Chaffetz was referring when...

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Will the disappointment ever end?

The Obama administration just announced a meager list of areas that deserve federal protection. Given the fanfare of the list release, you might ask: does Obama plan to use his ample authority under the Antiquities Act to save these places as national monuments or grant some other form of administrative...

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“What are they thinking?!”

I said this to myself as I unwrapped the voluminous Draft Environmental Impact Statement from yesterday’s mail. Here was the document the Bureau of Land Management prepared in order to “analyze” the leasing of 3,700 acres of public lands for a strip coal mine, right on the doorstep of Bryce...

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