Letter: Our public lands should not be exploited and will not help solve problems we have created ourselves on the land already developed

Mark Eddington’s article “Environmentalists excluded from speaking at congressional hearing in southern Utah” hit many important points concerning what was an unfortunate and vivid example of the divided politics we are witnessing generally in this state and country, while using Earth Day in a feigned attempt to show love for our public land.Not mentioned was that other federal lands subcommittee members — who support our public lands and might otherwise have attended &md