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Author: Kya Marienfeld

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Take Action to Protect Native Ecosystems in the West Desert!

Feb 28th, 2025 Written by Kya Marienfeld

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Help Keep Red Cliffs Roadless: Submit Your Comments to the BLM by Dec. 28th!

Dec 12th, 2023 Written by Kya Marienfeld

Back in 2009, SUWA and a coalition of conservation partners worked to pass the Washington County Growth and Conservation Act, which created the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA). Located at the convergence of the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Plateau, and the Great Basin ecoregions, the Red Cliffs are like...

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Speak Up for the Manti-La Sal National Forest

Nov 3rd, 2023 Written by Kya Marienfeld

Want a say in how the U.S. Forest Service manages public lands and mountain ecosystems in southeastern Utah? Now is your chance! The Manti-La Sal National Forest, which includes distinct units in the La Sal Mountains outside of Moab as well as the Abajo Mountains and a portion of the...

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Help Shape the Future of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument!

Oct 12th, 2023 Written by Kya Marienfeld

Submit Your Comments on the Grand Staircase-Escalante Draft Management Plan by November 9th It was only two years ago when we celebrated the restoration of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Now, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a draft Resource Management Plan for the restored monument and is accepting...

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Biden Administration Seeks Public Input on Old-Growth Forest Conservation

Aug 19th, 2022 Written by Kya Marienfeld

Last Earth Day, President Biden issued an executive order calling on the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to conserve mature and old-growth forests as a climate solution. This was a great step toward meaningful protections and policy, but now it’s up to us to ensure that this...

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On Tuesday, US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan On Tuesday, US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan issued an order granting SUWA and other conservation groups’ request to reopen the case and lift the stay that was in place regarding 2017 litigation over President Trumps’ illegal reductions of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. Today, during a status conference, the Judge ordered the parties to agree on a briefing schedule and to confer on her current notice order requiring the federal government to give plaintiffs 48 hours advance notice of surface disturbing activities on the lands cut from the national monuments. 

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Today we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day! Let th Today we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day! Let this day be a reminder that the lands we work to protect are the ancestral homelands of many Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Nations. We do this work to ensure these lands remain protected now and for many generations in the future.

To honor this day, be sure to follow and uplift pages like @bearsearscoalition and @grandstaircasecoalition! 

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As we head into the long weekend in observance of As we head into the long weekend in observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day, let's take a moment to recognize that recent polling shows overwhelming support among Utah voters for Native American Tribes to play a strong role in managing public lands that hold sacred and cultural significance.

See the detail here: https://bit.ly/UtahMonumentsPoll2026
Today the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition, Southern Uta Today the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management for approving construction of a highway through Utah’s scenic, culturally and historically significant Gate Canyon in eastern Utah.

The project would straighten 6 miles of what is currently a scenic, winding, gravel road and involves the blasting and destruction of 100-foot tall canyon walls, damaging Native rock imagery, Utah history, and habitat for threatened wildlife.

Gate Canyon feeds into Nine Mile Canyon — a world-renowned archaeological area that contains more than 10,000 unique, irreplaceable cultural, historical and archaeological resources. The proposed route of the highway, designed to accommodate 70-foot oil tankers, cuts directly through the rugged landscape and will fundamentally alter the character of Gate Canyon (see last slide for rendering).

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From 2018-2021 (during the previous, illegal reduc From 2018-2021 (during the previous, illegal reduction) there were a total of 20 mining claims filed in the lands cut from Bears Ears National Monument. As of Monday, Sept. 28 (two weeks after the mineral withdrawal was lifted during the second illegal reduction), more than triple that number – 72 claims – have been filed in Bears Ears. 

Claims have been filed by Land Survey Advisors LLC (36), Kimmerle Mining (33), and George W. Schultz (3). A map of all claims can be found above. 

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