Rep. John Curtis oversaw the advancement of 3 bills aimed at asserting local control over public lands, as he wades deeper into the debate over who knows best about land management.
WASHINGTON — Rep. John Curtis oversaw the advancement of three bills in the last two weeks aimed at asserting local control over public lands, as he wades deeper into the debate over who knows best when it comes to land management.
Curtis says what ties the bills together is a skepticism of federal agencies' ability to manage public lands and a belief that local stakeholders, including city officials,"The common thread is a management from Washington, D.C., of something that's very, very important to us by people who, in most cases, have never been here," Curtis told the Deseret News.
And a bill that would allow the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, an agency responsible for generating public school revenue, to exchange over 150,000 acres of land within the expanded Bears Ears National Monument for an equal amount of more profitable land currently controlled by the Bureau of Land Management.
He says this emphasis comes, in part, from the fact that between 60% and 70% of the state is public land managed by federal agencies, with that number exceeding 90% in some of the counties he represents.
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