{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20141030185735/http://robbishop.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397664", "IN THE NEWS: In our opinion: Daggett County shines with public-lands compromises", "2014-10-30", "2014", "2014-10", "Republican", "House", "UT", "Rob Bishop", "B001250", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "Deseret News editorial Considering all the \u201cplayers\u201d involved and \u201cfields\u201d in play, one needs a scorecard to track progress with ongoing public lands efforts in eastern and southeastern Utah.\nAnd the latest addition to that scorecard? A home run coming out of Daggett County.\nFirst, a quick in-game update on the Bishop public lands initiative, bearing the name of Rep. Rob Bishop, the Utah congressman who has spent the last nearly two years trying to broker local land-use agreements. It\u2019s a search for public lands resolutions that the Deseret News dubbed \u201cThe Grand Compromise.\u201d\nThe initiative \u2014 a work-in-progress with county-by-county discussions and cooperations \u2014 is expected to be unveiled in final-draft form in early 2015. The initiative proposes solutions for some 18 million acres in the extreme eastern past of Utah, with possible wilderness designations reaching 2 million acres and creating well-defined areas for recreation, ranching, oil and gas development, mining interests, potash extraction and more.\nThe \u201cplayers\u201d represent dozens of local government entities, special-interest groups, businesses, corporations and the like \u2014 all with a vested interest in the public lands and their uses. It\u2019s something Utahns want to see successfully resolved.\nBishop\u2019s initiative allows compromise at the local level \u2014 the county-by-county compromises allowing for closest-level discussions unique to that area. In other words, what\u2019s good for Uintah County may be different than what works in Wayne County, rather than painting the entire region with one broad brushstroke.\nEmery County, for example, lined up its public lands compromises more than a year ago, a model of prompt effort and cooperation. Other counties, such as San Juan, are on the other end, with invested participants unable so far to find much of a common middle ground. And still others, like Grand, are somewhere in the middle \u2014 seemingly reaching a cooperative summit one day only to struggle with a speed bump the next.\nMeanwhile, Bishop says Obama administration officials are letting the processes continue while progress is being made, rather than have the federal government come in and with one fell swoop \u2014 a national monument designation for a big chunk of the lands \u2014 make a game-eliminating play resulting in definite and restrictive land uses.\nWhich brings us back to Daggett County, the state\u2019s least-populated county (meaning there\u2019s plenty of public lands to work with). Last week, the Daggett participants compromised in give-and-take fashion, including identifying some 100,000 acres (a fifth of Daggett\u2019s land mass) for wilderness and conservation designations, and another 7,000 acres for much-needed resort development.\nOfficials for the different entities and groups saluted the end result, as did Bishop, who said, \u201cThis is almost like a microcosm or template for what we can do in the rest of Utah.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20141030185735/http://robbishop.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397664"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0320988949388266, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}