In a weekend editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune commented:

More than four years ago, Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory, R-West Jordan, blew into Boise with a plan.

Bypass the federal regulations and land managers.

Neutralize the environmentalists.

 

Go around the national politics.

Go to court. Wrest control of the national forests. Place them under state management. Restore the logging economy and jobs that have been dissipated since the early 1990s.

"Who better to manage these lands than Idahoans?" Sen. Jeff Siddoway, R-Terreton, said at the time. "Because of federal control, Idahoans have been denied the opportunity to make a living with the land."

So in the intervening years, Idaho lawmakers pursued Ivory's agenda. And in the process, they created a few jobs.

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