Land Swaps

NPR | By Howard Berkes

Published November 4, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on controversy of federal land swaps in the state of Utah. Critics of the deals that exchanged state land for federal land appear to have the federal government cheating itself.

Howard Berkes

Howard Berkes is a correspondent for the NPR Investigations Unit.

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