The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate Tuesday, Feb. 12, passed the most comprehensive conservation legislation in more than a decade, legislation that protects lands in nearly every state in the Union.
In Utah, it created 661,000 acres of wilderness in Emery County, 300,000 acres for a national recreation area and protects 63 miles of the Green River.
You may recall that this bill was single-handedly killed a year ago by Sen. Mike Lee, a man who has supposedly sworn to serve the people of Utah. Fortunately, it came up this year as a formal bill, and it passed 92-8.