The future of Cedar Mesa wilderness proposal unclear San Juan County residents who don’t want outgoing Sen. Bob Bennett’s land bill to die have formed a grass-roots organization, Friends of Cedar Mesa, to keep citizens in the loop while wilderness-designation discussions hang in limbo. Accommodating the seemingly perpetual arguments about...

BLM's new boss in Utah Juan Palma, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s new state director for Utah, says he is ready for the hot public-lands debates waiting for him. Palma, 55, took the oath of office last week to replace Selma Sierra, who retired. In remarks at his swearing-in...

Guv cheers, jeers federal lands agency The often-contentious — yet vital — relationship between Utah’s Republican dominated government and Democratic federal land managers was on full display Tuesday. His sit-down with Salazar was a follow-up to a visit Salazar made to Utah in April. They discussed developing renewable energy on...