Invoking local rights, Utah protesters cross into federal land

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Invoking local rights, Utah protesters cross into federal land

A local county commissioner here frustrated with what he called overreach by the federal government led a protest ride of several dozen all-terrain vehicles into a public canyon closed off by the Bureau of Land Management.

“It feels great,” said San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman after he rode two miles past a sign forbidding entry by motorized vehicles. “That line I crossed was a pretty arbitrary thing.”

The 50-year-old Lyman said the event was a way to assert county sovereignty over Recapture Canyon, a remote site in southeast Utah.
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