Tim Glenn: Itâs no surprise that Utah doesnât get its fair share of public lands money
Utahâs elected officials have shown no support for public lands.
(Rick Bowmer | AP file photo)
In this March 3, 2018, file photo, Mitt Romney tours Arches National Park as Arches National Park Superintendent Kate Cannon near Moab, Utah.
By Tim Glenn | Special to The Tribune
  | April 29, 2021, 8:00 p.m.
Sen. Mitt Romney and the rest of Utahâs federal delegation recently sent a letter to Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland requesting an explanation for the amount of funding budgeted for Utahâs public land as part of the Great American Outdoors Act.
Tahoe Daily Tribune
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. Six projects in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest will be funded by the Great American Outdoors Act, including Mount Rose and Tahoe Meadows area improvements.
The Forest Service said the projects will improve visitor experience by reducing deferred maintenance backlogs and enhancing aging recreational infrastructure.
The service received over $1.5 million for the following projects selected for this first round of funding.
The projects include:
Mt. Rose and Tahoe Meadows Restroom Reconstruction This project on the Carson Ranger District will replace and repair restrooms and parking facilities at two trailheads located on Nevada State Route 431 (Mount Rose Highway).
With the deadline approaching, Democratic leaders were trying to line up the votes to pass their bill. But they had a problem: Joe Manchin had put his foot down.
The year was 1983, the setting was West Virginia’s statehouse in Charleston, and the deadline was the end of the legislative session at midnight. Democratic leaders wanted to pass a bill creating a board that could cap rates charged by hospitals in the state. Manchin, a 35-year-old first-term state representative, had opposed the proposal.
Dave Lieber, who was then a reporter for the Charleston Gazette, has written about what he saw happen that night. As the House of Delegates Manchin’s chamber was taking a series of votes, Manchin was “over in the Senate, he was kneeling at the desk of the Senate clerk, a really in-your-face move,” Lieber told Vox. Manchin, who had been elected just four months ago, was negotiating.