Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit October 12, 2005, Nos. 04-4071, 04-4073 (Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. Bureau of Land Management)

McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

This case involves one of the more contentious land use issues in the West: the legal status of claims by local governments to rights of way for the construction of highways across federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).