Abstract
Standing on the rim of the San Rafel Swell, a visitor to southern Utah can see the contours of red sandstone open up across the horizon for almost sixty miles. The San Rafel Swell, a giant expanse of undeveloped land located at the gateway to canyon country in southern Utah, is at the center of the proposed San Rafel Swell National Heritage and Conservation Act ("the Act"). The Act outlines land management guidelines for an area of land in southern Utah that includes the San Rafel Swell as well as parts of Desolation and Labyrinth canyons. Supporters applaud the bill as a consensus-driven and locally designed management plan that provides a "creative, local solution to the long-standing wilderness war [in southern Utah]." Critics, however, dismiss the bill and the process that created it as anti-wilderness and non-inclusive of all interested parties.
Recommended Citation
Cook, Sydney F.
(2001)
"Revival of Jeffersonian Democracy or Resurgence
of Western Anger? The Emergence of
Collaborative Decision Making,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 2000:
No.
3, Article 4.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2000/iss3/4