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Utah Joins Lawsuit to Stop Biden Oil/Gas Lease Ban

Mar 25, 2021 · Basin Now · News

Utah has joined a multi state lawsuit in the battle to block the Biden Administration’s plan to suspend oil and gas leases on federal lands in Utah and beyond. According to Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes, the lawsuit says Biden Executive Order 14008 is in violation of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA).

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Give’m Health: Epidemiology

Mar 25, 2021 · Basin Now · News

Vaccines and preventing the spread of illness are dinnertime talk compared to pre-pandemic life when most folks left all that to the health professionals. This week’s Give’m Health topic with TriCounty Health Department is Epidemiology and TriCounty Health Epi Coordinator Cyndie Mattinson had plenty to share.

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DWR proposes decrease in general-season deer permits for 2021

Mar 25, 2021 · Basin Now · News

Biologists from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources are asking for the public’s feedback after recommending a decrease in the number of general-season permits for the 2021 deer hunt. The current objective of the DWR is to have just over 400,000 deer across Utah but currently there is just an estimated 314,850 deer in the state.

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Budding Historian Brought Century Old Gun to Be Examined

Mar 24, 2021 · Basin Now · News

Pieces of history can be found anywhere. That is certainly the case for Danny Tuttle, a six year old from Green River, Wyoming. According to a press release from Sweetwater Now, the regular museum visitor brought a badly rusted revolver that was found hidden beneath a rock in the desert by his great-grandfather, Jesse Lloyd Tuttle, in the 1940s.