While Utah’s elected leaders prepare a lawsuit to reverse President Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears, that isn’t stopping other state officials from exploring how to shed the 135,000 acres of state-owned sections within the monument’s enlarged boundaries.
Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration officials to swap 135,000 acres inside the monument’s borders.Editor’s noteThis story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism.President Joe Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears National Monument, that isn’t stopping other state officials from exploring how to shed the 135,000 acres of state-owned sections within the monument’s enlarged boundaries.
In its current 1.36 million-acre version, the monument spans Cedar Mesa, Comb Ridge, Dark Canyon and the Abajos, a complex of rugged, undeveloped terrain rich in archaeological treasures and natural wonders. Captured in that mix are more than 200 square-mile “checkerboarded” sections of trust lands managed to generate revenue for public schools.
Other than grazing, there is not much the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, or, can do with these lands. Trading them for federal lands elsewhere in Utah is the smartest thing the agency can do, regardless of whether Utah prevails in any lawsuit to change the monument’s boundaries, according to SITLA spokeswoman Marla Kennedy.
The agency has already sold a valuable section inside the monument on the southern tip of Comb Ridge to a private party.enlarging the monument, the Bureau of Land Management is directed to orchestrate the massive land trade — as well as protect the land from mining, road building and looting. SITLA’s Bears Ears trade would be one of several exchanges Utah trust lands officials have undertaken with the BLM over the past decade, consolidating its holdings in mineral rich areas that are better suited for monetizing.
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