The Interior Department's decision to extend the highest level of protection to millions of acres of pristine federal land across the West has sparked howls of protests from Republican lawmakers and shouts of praise among environmentalists. But Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's Dec. 22, 2010, executive order to protect wide swaths of federal land with "wilderness characteristics" may be most acutely felt in northeast Utah's Uintah County, which has fought tooth and nail against what it perceives as the Interior Department's heavy hand with respect to public lands management.
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