SUWA Praises Matheson

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance hails the U.S. House's unanimous passage of Rep. Jim Matheson's Utah Recreational Land Exchange Act, which, according to SUWA, "creates a win-win situation that provides protection for important wild lands but allows the state to develop appropriate lands to help fund schools. The legislation, which has wide support and should become law soon, will exchange over 40,000 acres of state land along the Colorado River corridor -- within areas such as Beaver Creek, Fisher Towers, and the Book Cliffs -- for land more appropriate for development in other parts of the state."