On December 24, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar reversed the Bush-era “No More Wilderness” policy, creating a new “Wild Lands” policy that could potentially protect 6 million acres of wilderness in Utah (see our Associate Director’s note). Please thank Secretary Salazar for the new policy, but let him know that the...

Happy New Year from all of us at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.  Thank you for your strong support in 2010.  Now let’s get to work in 2011! 2010 ended on a bright note with Secretary Salazar’s new wilderness guidance that could give needed protection to 6 million acres of...

With your dogged determination and willingness to speak out for Utah wilderness, it was inevitable.  And yesterday, it finally happened . . . Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar released new wilderness guidance that has the potential to give needed protection to 6 million of acres of wilderness-quality lands in Utah....

Proposed Desolation Canyon wilderness, photo by Ray Bloxham In what can only be called “shockingly disappointing,” the Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is promoting a private company’s plan to develop the Desolation Canyon proposed wilderness and destroy thousands of acres.  We would have expected as much during the last...