... SlicKKK turned into a national park ...Which messed up a LOT of my WILDRENESS experience!
The rough and rugged places I used to get lost in have been graveled and sanitized and port-a-pottied into Disneyland-like, dis-abled access, watered down, no need to leave the car, rules, Rules, RULES!!!
Keep Off The Grass and Have A Nice Day!
Utah is basically in two parts: there is a Northern part which looks sort of like Switzerland, where all but a handfull of the people live, and a Southern part which looks sort of like Mars, and the low sulfur coal deposits are in the part which looks like Mars. SlicKKK's stroke of the pen, law of the land thing which turned those areas into a "park" was motivated by two things i.e. a hatred of Mormons and payoff to his LIPPO buddies who own the only other piece of property like that on the planet and the stunt basically pulled a trillion dollars out of the American economy on a permanent basis. Jerome Zeifman noted that "Utah-gate" which is what many call the thing was one of three things he'd have impeached SlicKKK for, the other being the two flagrant and obvious bribes to Monica Lewinski and Web Hubble.
There is no "green" excuse for Utahgate. The only thing which lives in that area is rattlesnakes and tarantulas.