Shame on state Rep. Brad Johnson for telling Robert Redford to donate some of his land (private property) to wilderness just to get even with the feds for putting public land into the Escalante Monument. Redford's Sundance is a wonderful example of how to develop a canyon without ruining it. Compare it to the development of Emigration Canyon, for instance.

Shame, also, on Representatives Chris Cannon and Merrill Cook. As custodians of Utah's well-advertised devotion to values, they never should have voted to sustain Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House of Representatives.

--Barbara Kleiner
Letter to the Editor published in
The Salt Lake Tribune
February 2, 1997