Brian Maffly Reporter
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Brian Maffly covers Utah's public lands for The Salt Lake Tribune.

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Focus Areas

  • Public Land
  • Environment

318 Articles
over 2 years ago
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SITLA wants out of Bears Ears, trade for other federal lands

The Utah School and Institutional Trust and Lands Administration, or SITLA, is exploring how to shed the 135,000 acre...

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over 2 years ago
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Utah Wildlife Board bans trail cameras for big game hunting

A divided Utah Wildlife Board voted on Tuesday to ban trail cameras for hunting when the motion-activated devices are...

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over 2 years ago
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One Utah avoids ‘climate change’ and air pollution while trying to boost rural parts of the state

Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journal...

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over 2 years ago
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When deer damage orchards, what does Utah owe fruit growers?

Since wildlife belongs to the people of Utah, taxpayers are ultimately on the hook for the fences big game knock down...

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over 2 years ago
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Appeals court affirms ‘Diesel Brothers’ engaged in ‘flagrant misconduct’ by removing emission con...

David “Heavy D” Sparks and his associates at Sparks Motors LLC illegally sold or retrofitted at least 31 diesel truck...

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over 2 years ago
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Is Utah’s ski industry ready for omicron?

Alta had several COVID-19 outbreaks last week and is not likely alone in feeling the effects of the resurgent coronav...

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over 2 years ago
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Mike Noel’s proposed luxury golf course in Kanab rejected by SITLA

Mike Noel’s dream of a destination golf course in Kanab hit a sand trap last week when state trust lands officials de...

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over 2 years ago
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Superfund site south of Tooele will finally be cleaned up

After more than 21 years on the Superfund priority list, completion of Stockton’s cleanup is finally in sight thanks ...

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over 2 years ago
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Proposed Parleys Canyon quarry blindsided neighbors

Without telling his nearly 100 neighbors, Jesse Lassley bought up private land last year and developed a plan to carv...

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over 2 years ago
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‘I cleared a hole to get some air’ — skier escapes wild ride in Utah avalanche

A backcountry skier escaped unscathed after being buried during a wild ride in an avalanche Friday in Big Cottonwood ...

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over 2 years ago
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Snows (finally) return to Utah ski resorts to the relief of many

Hardly a week ago, northern Utah’s mountains were dry, balmy and brown, a strange feel for December in a place suppos...

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over 2 years ago
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Surface Transportation Board approves proposed Uinta Basin oil railway

The Surface Transportation Board granted final approval for the construction of an 85-mile rail line across the Uinta...

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