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Arpril 2001: [Gov. Leavitt announced:] The state was expected to file a lawsuit today against the U.S. Forest Service over the so-called "roadless" rule imposed by President Clinton in his final week of office.

I assume there has been no follow-up on Grand Staircase-Escalante, has there? (see previous post)

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Connect the dots time. Regarding the trillion dollars of coal in Escalante:

1998: "It would be terrible if the country with the most coal reserves on earth walked its way into a situation where we had to go around the world and protect our resources of coal. It borders on being immoral," said Gen. Richard Lawson, U.S. Air Force (Ret.). The potential is now even greater that the U.S. might need to send troops to foreign countries to protect coal and oil, he added.

How prophetic.