The white paper published by the Wallace Stegner Center’s Robert Keiter and John Ruple in response to the Utah’s Transfer of Public Lands Act has drawn wide media coverage and discussion. The paper titled, “The Transfer of Public Lands Movement: Taking the ‘Public’ Out of Public Lands.” concludes that the TPLA hinders, rather than helps, efforts to advance public land management reform.
• KSL Radio’s Doug Wright Show on February 9, 2015 »
• Phys.org, “Federal lands takeover would harm the public” »
• KVOA Tucson News, February 8, 2015, “Legal scholars: Utah’s push for fed land would hurt public” »
• Greenwire, February 9, 2015, “Federal lands takeover ‘misguided’ — report” »
• Elko Daily Free Press, February 8, 2015, “Scholars: Utah’s push for land would hurt public” »