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Brian Maffly
Brian Maffly covers Utah public lands for The Salt Lake Tribune. Contact Brian Maffly at bmaffly@sltrib.com or 801-573-2382. http://muckrack.com/brian-maffly
(Brian Maffly | The Salt Lake Tribune) Many of the pines in the Lake Country of the western Uinta Mountains, pictured in 2016, are standing dead thanks to beetle infestation. Lawmakers say northern Utah’s “overgrown” forests are depleting the state’s water resources and must be thinned in order to rescue the Great Salt Lake.

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Do trees suck? You bet they do, and it’s time we do something about it, according to a group of conservative Utah lawmakers. Claiming “overgrown” forests are guzzling Utah’s water resources dry, rural...
 

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