The Ute Tribe contends state officials rigged the sales process to ensure the land would be sold to the Utah Department of Natural Resources, which hopes to one day protect the land as a wildlife preserve, state forest and haven for big game hunting.
newsletter. Enter your email below to receive more stories like these right to your inbox.SITLA’s land sales procedures, which rely on sealed bids, are carefully structured to ensure the agency receives the highest price possible for trust lands it seeks to sell. In the Tabby case, the agency bent its own rules to the detriment of Utah schools, whose trust fund stood to gain millions had the sale gone through, the suit alleges.
For the many years Styler led DNR, he had sought to acquire Tabby to manage as a wildlife preserve, state forest and a haven for big game hunting. SITLA, whose mandate is to manage trust lands to raise revenue for schools, likewise wanted to offload the land because it had never made much money off it outside of grazing fees.
SITLA wound up using a tight timeframe that made it difficult for private buyers to participate. While there was a great deal of interest in the property, only two bids came in, one from the state and one from the tribe, which had the cash on hand to make the purchase.
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