BLM inventories and protections are essential, required by law
Read MoreUtah Wilderness News, April 14, 2011
Compromise is a winning trend
Read MoreBackroom deal places wilderness last
Last Friday night, in a stunning show of disrespect for the last remaining magnificent wild lands in Utah and throughout the West, the Obama administration struck a deal with Republicans that threw the Interior Department’s recently established Wild Lands policy out the window.
Read MoreAgreement Reached on Protecting Portions of the Proposed White River Wilderness
In August 2006, fresh out of law school, I came to the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA). One of the first issues I began working on involved challenging oil and gas development that threatened the proposed White River wilderness.
Read MoreHelp Stop congressional attacks on wilderness
So far this year in Congress we’ve seen numerous attacks on the environment, such as attempts to restrict the President’s longstanding authority to designate national monuments, defund Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s Wild Lands policy, and implement wide-ranging budget cuts that would hamstring the Bureau of Land Management’s ability to protect...
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