Feds approves highway across Washington County’s Red Cliffs conservation area

With the end of the Trump administration less than a week away, federal agencies issued a pair of decisions Thursday that will result in a highway getting paved through Utah’s Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, a controversial proposal that could fragment habitat set aside for endangered Mojave desert tortoise and open space valued for outdoor recreation on the edge of St. George.Local and state leaders hailed the so-called Northern Corridor as the key to solving traffic woes in one of