Rep. John Curtis’s bill to redraw wilderness boundaries to clear a path for proposed trails along the Wasatch foothills cleared the U.S. House on Monday with a unanimous vote.
Rep. Curtis’s bill proposes to redraw wilderness boundaries to enable bike riding on the proposed trail alignments in Salt Lake and Utah counties.
Curtis, who grew up exploring the very foothills affected by the bill, views the bill as a worthwhile trade-off to enable greater recreational access to the mountain terrain closest to Utah’s major metropolitan area. This land was recently acquired by the Forest Service from the Boy Scouts of America at its Camp Tracy, which has fallen on hard times since the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints parted ways with the scouting organization.
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