Last Sunday's op-ed ("Until Utah controls its federal lands, Utahns will be second-class citizens," April 3) written by a quartet of Republican state lawmakers could hardly be more wrongheaded. It mistakenly asserts that federally managed lands in our state are "Utah's," when in fact they are jointly owned by all Americans. Meanwhile, the so-called "constitutional experts" that prepared the report the lawmakers rely on are really nothing more than hired guns. The result? More of the same hot air we have come to expect from Republican state lawmakers operating in an echo chamber.