31-01-2018 01:34 via deseretnews.com

Resolution urges BLM, Forest Service relocation to Utah

SALT LAKE CITY — A rural lawmaker figures if federal agencies are going to manage the land they own impacting the lives of state and local residents, why not move those agencies closer?Rep. Carl Albrecht, R-Richfield, is running HJR02 to urge consideration of relocating the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service to Utah."My daddy always told me, he said, 'If you want to manage the land, you've got to be near it,'" Albrecht told members of the Natural Resource
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