Letter: Emery County land bill is a huge step backward

My husband and I strongly oppose Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. John Curtis’ push on the Emery County Public Land Management Act as it is written.We see this bill as a huge step backward for conservation. The bill designates only a third of the acres of wilderness-quality lands in Emery County for wilderness protection and leaves 900,000 acres of BLM land without protection. Of the third of the land that is designated, much is already protected.The bill does not go far enough to protect the San