Utah: Democrats in congress ask Interior to preserve 9.43 million acres

Written by Mike on November 11th, 2009

A House Natural Resources subcommittee last month held a hearing on the legislation, which has not come up for a vote in the 20 years it has been introduced. The bill, called America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, would designate 9.4 million acres of public land in Utah as wilderness, effectively barring new roads, mining or off-road vehicle use.

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