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How Utah’s Tabby Mountain got caught up in a political hailstorm

Ute Tribe’s $47 million bid to buy these trust lands derailed state’s plan for a wildlife preserve

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah’s Tabby Mountain provides scenic big game habitat in the western Uinta Basin, on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. The Utah Department of Natural Resources has tried buying 28,400 acres of trust lands here to manage as wildlife preserve open to the public, but was outbid by the Ute Indian Tribe.