Summary
Eleven years have passed since then-Gov. Mike Leavitt convened a growth summit to direct special attention to the need to plan for orderly growth in Utah. It's disgraceful that, all this time later, a new governor has to draw attention once again to this need -- disgraceful because lawmakers have largely ignored growth and conservation issues in the intervening decade.
And yet Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s call last week for more money for the LeRay McAllister Critical Lands Conservation Fund was a good sign that at least someone in power is taking the need seriously. With any luck, state lawmakers will begin doing the same.See the full content of this document
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An Urgent Need for Conservation
McAllister was a former state lawmaker who passed away in 2005. The fund named for him has been in existence since 1999. It was ...
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