Republican lawmakers on Wednesday piled on a recently unveiled conservation proposal for the Central Wasatch Mountains, contending it could do more to harm than enhance Utah’s increasingly crowded ski resorts in the Cottonwood canyons.
Topping the list of complaints were the plan’s lack of consensual support, its potential to overburden the public lands with yet more bureaucracy and its failure to accommodate Alta Ski Area’s needs. The famed resort either asked to be removed or was excluded from the plan, depending on who’s telling the story, over its refusal to trade its private holdings in Grizzly Gulch.