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4:53   You can find Lee and Debbie Elmgreens ranch at a shrubby fork in the narrow canyons of the Book Cliffs. On a recent fall day the greens have a map of southeastern Utah spread across their dining room table.   Lee Elmgreen is reading a new report by the Bureau of Land Management. It's a 1300 page study of a plan to put a massive road in their backyard.   LEE: The scope of this work included a review of available information. And a one day visual windshield reconnaissance of the project.   The 35-mile highway would carve through the enormous stretch of undesignated wilderness that ab...

/ Flickr The proposed Eastern Utah Regional Connection highway would connect Vernal and Moab through the Book Cliffs. Highway-191 (pictured) currently connects the two towns. A controversial highway through the Book Cliffs in Grand County won't go forward at this time. A group of rural counties called the Seven County Infrastructure Coalition voted unanimously to suspend the project in a meeting Friday, citing opposition from Grand County, where the highway would be located. The 35-mile road, which was first proposed in the 1980s, was estimated to cost around $350 million dollars in 2015. O...