Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
The election was, without a doubt, a major setback in our work to protect the redrock wilderness. Instead of gaining new protections for the canyon country, we’ll be playing defense against the anti-public-lands Trump administration, backed by Utah’s politicians. Much of the progress we’ve achieved—everything from the restoration of Bears...
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[NOTE: The following letters from SUWA Executive Director Scott Groene and Board Chair Tom Kenworthy appear in the Autumn/Winter 2024 edition of our Redrock Wilderness print newsletter.] In September, I stood in a raucous Washington, DC bar watching the inaugural gathering of the newly minted National Wilderness Coalition. It was...
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The Earth and all its inhabitants face the dire threats of climate change and the loss of nature, including extinctions. And in its first ten days the Biden administration has already taken meaningful steps to address those threats. It isn’t our job at SUWA to cheerlead for a particular administration,...
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This op-ed by SUWA Executive Director Scott Groene was published in the online version of the Salt Lake Tribune on February 13, 2020. With the reintroduction of America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act in Congress last week, it’s worth reflecting on how far wilderness has come in Utah. Over the past...
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Following public outcry and a formal protest from SUWA, this week the Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) deferred all of its proposed oil and gas leases in San Juan County from its March 2019 lease sale “due to additional environmental analysis required.” The proposed leases were on the doorstep...
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