{"id":10252,"date":"2024-12-24T08:47:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T15:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:08","slug":"public-lands-change-of-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=10252","title":{"rendered":"Public Lands: Change of Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084127.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10253\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1206\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084127.jpg 1206w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084127-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084127-1024x292.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084127-768x219.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1206px) 100vw, 1206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Utah is no longer asking the U.S. Supreme Court to order the United States to \u201cdispose\u201d of 18.5 million acres of public land in the Beehive State, its latest court pleading shows.<\/p>\n<p>In an 18-page Dec. 4 filing, Utah says its original complaint does not seek a sell-off or ownership transfer of the federal property. That complaint to the Supreme Court in August asked justices to \u201c[o]rder the United States to begin the process of disposing of its unappropriated federal lands within Utah\u201d \u2014 18.5 million acres of land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.<\/p>\n<p>Utah filed more papers Dec. 4 that appear to back off from that demand for divesture.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cUtah is not \u2018ask[ing] this Court to exercise \u2026 the power to dispose of public lands,\u2019\u201d Utah\u2019s latest filing states. \u201cNor does Utah seek an order \u2018direct[ing] Congress to enact new statutes,\u2019\u201d requiring the United States to shed its holdings, Utah\u2019s latest document reads.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Utah\u2019s lawyers contend, the state only wants the justices to declare unconstitutional the United States\u2019 ownership of the property managed by the BLM. What the federal government should do after that, Utah\u2019s latest filing doesn\u2019t say.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between the two filings marks a \u201cseismic change\u201d in Utah\u2019s position, said Ryan Semerad, a Casper attorney practiced in public land issues. He has analyzed the Utah complaint in a 40-page paper submitted for publication to the Wyoming Law Review. He also successfully represented four hunters in an ongoing public access\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/corner-crossing\/\">corner-crossing case<\/a>\u00a0in Carbon County.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to Utah\u2019s initial complaint, the latest filing is \u201ca much softer request \u2026 a much weaker ask than the headlines have made out,\u201d Semerad wrote in an email. \u201cIn the end, Utah just wants the Court to tell Congress that it must give the Secretary of the Interior more leeway to sell off or transfer lands, eventually.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wyofile.com\/utah-were-no-longer-asking-supreme-court-to-dispose-of-public-blm-land\/\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10254\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084700.jpg 799w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084700-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-2024-12-24-084700-768x159.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah is no longer asking the U.S. Supreme Court to order the United States to \u201cdispose\u201d of 18.5 million acres of public land in the Beehive State, its latest court pleading shows. In an 18-page Dec. 4 filing, Utah says its original complaint does not seek a sell-off or ownership transfer of the federal property. 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