When 8,000 acres owned by Utah’s Trust Lands Administration in Cinnamon Creek went up for auction in 2021, the state was caught off guard. The land was in the district of Rep. Casey Snider, R-Paradise, and as an avid outdoorsman, he knew its value as a public recreation area. So, he scrambled to find a way for the state to keep it out of developers’ hands, telling the then director of the Division of Wildlife Resources: “Go bid.