Utah seeks to loosen road rules in forests to help protect against fires, but some fear it’s a ploy to bolster logging that would make blazes worse

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Smoke lingers in the valley where fire destroyed thousands of acres of forest, north of the southern Utah ski town of Brian Head, Friday, June 30, 2017.

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