Grand County fights resurrected Book Cliffs highway proposal

Despite decades of opposition from environmentalists, hunters and Grand County officials, a proposed highway through Utah’s Book Cliffs never died.The project merely went underground and has recently resurfaced with a right-of-way application from a consortium of energy-producing counties that have long sought to connect the Uinta Basin with Interstate 70.Grand County is upset that the project application is moving ahead without any consultation with it by legislators and Gov. Gary Herbert