The Elko County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution supporting Utah in its quest to acquire more than 18 million acres of federally held public land.
In a federal lawsuit filed in August by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Attorney General Sean Reyes, Utah asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the federal government can indefinitely hold unappropriated lands — land that is not managed as a national park, forest, conservation area or otherwise protected — within states, an issue that spans multiple Western states.
The lawsuit seeks to convert control of roughly 18.5 million acres of unappropriated land back to state management…