Mountain Land Development Services

Congress finally updates a 35-year old piece of legislation under which ski resorts may operate on USFS lands. That was written when snowboarding was a gleam in few eyes, most ski resorts weren't of legal drinking age, and skiing - including backcountry and sidecountry- had far fewer afficionados than it does today. The County is completing their code modifications, to mimic Congresses update. Its important to acknowledge that summer recreation at the developed mountain resorts facilitates the ever-increasing levels of recreation on our public and private lands, localizing them to managed areas where the impacts can be mitigated- rather than dispersing those impacts out into surrounding pristine areas.

Congress gives ski resorts in Utah, U.S. a summer boost | The Salt Lake Tribune One would think Save Our Canyons Executive Director Carl Fisher would hate what Congress decreed last week about ski resorts. But he doesn’t. Even though lawmakers deemed ski areas to be economically important four-season developments, they hardly gave the resorts carte blanche to build whatever th...