Congratulations, Utahns. You have a stake in a nice plot of land. A lot of it, actually.
The state of Utah owns about 5.5 million acres of forests, waterways, mountains, hills, parks, prairies and, yeah, a fair amount of arid desert.
Some of it is spectacular to look at, some of it fun to play on, some of it essential to our livelihoods and some of it worth a lot of money because of the oil, gas and minerals underneath it.
But as Utah residents, we entrust our state officials to care for it, manage it effectively and, as Gov.