Brian Maffly Reporter
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  • The Salt Lake Tribune
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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 1 year ago
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Troubled coal mines to acquire federal leases through SITLA land exchanges — and skip environment...

Utah expects to acquire two major coal tracts in the Dingell Act land exchanges to facilitate expansions at two troub...

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over 1 year ago
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Nevada calls on Utah and Upper Colorado Basin states to slash water use by 500,000 acre-feet

Nevada calls on Utah and the other Upper Colorado basin states to cut their use of river's water by 500,000 acre-feet...

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over 1 year ago
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Utah’s scourge of unplugged oil wells

Texas oilman Bill Gilmore, the principal of the bankrupt Weststar Exploration Co., is responsible for about 100 derel...

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over 1 year ago
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Colorado’s wolf reintroduction plan would put wolves at Utah’s border

Colorado wildlife officials release a voter-driven plan for re-establishing wolf populations in parts of Centennial S...

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over 1 year ago
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Texas company acquired 100 oil and gas wells in Utah, then disappeared into bankruptcy

Operated by a bankrupt LLC called WestStar Exploration, unproductive wells on Utah's public land should have been plu...

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over 1 year ago
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Utah’s Bonneville Shoreline Trail bill advances out of U.S. House on a unanimous vote

The U.S. House advanced a bill to adjust wilderness boundaries to clear a path for a future alignment of Utah's Bonne...

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over 1 year ago
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Drilling crews to flood Utah’s Lila Canyon coal mine fire with foam, water

Nearly three months after a coal deposit caught fire, operators of Emery County's Lila Canyon mine continue to drill ...

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over 1 year ago
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Living in Bears Ears: Utah ranchers reside on public land without paying rent

For more than 40 years, the BLM has not charged Utah ranchers Sandy and Gail Johnson for their the land they have liv...

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over 1 year ago
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Utah rancher enjoys free home on the range, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers

The Bureau of Land Management has allowed ranchers Sandy and Gail Johnson to live on public land in Fry Canyon, now i...

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over 1 year ago
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Utah Lake’s would-be dredgers demand controversial island project be reinstated

Utah Lake dredging proponents claim state violated the law by rejecting their application to create a network of isla...

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over 1 year ago
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State OKs road upgrades for Parleys quarry project

Utah highway officials have authorized road improvements supporting a controversial quarry project in Parleys Canyon ...

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over 1 year ago
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Should Utah pay $50 bounties on coyotes killed in controversial contests?

Since 2012, Utah wildlife officials have paid a $50 bounty on coyotes. An unknown portion of those taxpayer-funded bo...

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