R.S. 2477 and the Utah road-fetish

Enviros score a quiet victory in war over public lands roads

This is supposed to be a news roundup, but we’ve kind of covered most of the relevant happenings of the last two weeks—i.e. the Biden administration’s flurry of executive orders relating to public lands and the climate—so instead we’re looking at one little news nugget that slipped by almost unnoticed with a (longwinded) emphasis on the context side…

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