Dear Editor:

“This place was better when the Utes owned it,” you can often hear me lament.

But they don’t anymore. We do. And ranches and towns and houses fill our landscape. Even our backcountry has been developed with cabins and a series of ski huts.

When do you slam the door shut?

For Miller Mesa with County Road 5 running through approximately 2,000 acres of developable private land: This would equate to the construction of potentially 50 homes on 35-acre parcels. And as beautiful as that ...