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Utah Supreme Court Reverses Dismissal of Open and Public Meetings Act Cases

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance lawsuits challenging secret 2017 meetings held between Kane, Garfield and San Juan County Commissions and Trump officials can proceed Contact: Laura Peterson, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.236.3766 David Reymann, Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, 801.257.7939 Troy Booher, Zimmerman Booher, 801.924.0200 Salt Lake City, UT (February 25,...

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Wild Utah Podcast, Episode 22: A Not-so-Swell Travel Plan

The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments for a new travel management plan for the spectacular San Rafael Swell. With the designation of new wilderness areas in the Swell in 2019, and with the BLM’s poor track record of over-designating new routes through this kind of planning, your...

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Travel Plan: Tell the BLM to Protect the San Rafael Swell

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently developing a travel management plan for Utah’s spectacular San Rafael Swell and your input is urgently needed, especially if you’ve visited the area and don’t want to see it become a motorized vehicle sacrifice zone. Home to irreplaceable cultural and historical resources,...

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Interior Board Overturns BLM Decisions to Use Non-Native Livestock Forage and Chaining within Historic Boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kya Marienfeld, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 435-259-5440, kya@suwa.org  Laura Welp, Western Watersheds Project, 435-899-0204, laura@westernwatersheds.org  Decision finds BLM failed to consider project alternatives that would have limited post-wildfire treatments to native seeds and manual restoration methods Moab, UT (February 18, 2021) – The U.S. Department of...

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