The Salt Lake Tribune -- Utah's Statewide Newspaper "Our planet is at stake, and we hold the lifeline over a sizable chunk of it," writes collegiate ecofreak Jim Steitz. You'd think he'd be embarrassed to write such cliche-ridden hogwash.

The most severe danger to the redrock wilderness is that it is being so overpublicized by activists that it will be trampled by backpackers long before it would have been harmed by multiple use regulations. By trying to force it into federally designated wilderness, they are also pressing the rural counties where these lands are located to shift their economies from agriculture, mostly cattle, to tourism, which would create even more publicity and invitations for the world to come and overrun these lands.