Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
For Immediate Release April 1, 2016 After three years of meetings and negotiations, Rep. Rob Bishop released a draft of his “grand bargain” Public Lands Initiative in January. This proposed legislation was intended to settle the land disputes in multiple Utah counties for good. One of the stakeholders in the...
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Our e-newsletter with the latest on redrock wilderness news and events.
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On March 2nd, over 600 Utahns poured into a “Citizens’ Hearing” in Salt Lake City on Utah Representative Rob Bishop’s Public Lands Initiative (PLI), packing a huge auditorium, lining the walls, and standing shoulder to shoulder a dozen deep in the back of the room. More people spilled out into...
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HR 4313, the “Historic Route Preservation Act,” would significantly lower the standards for claiming so-called RS 2477 "highways," allowing counties and other special interest groups to win claims they never could now.
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Rep. Bishop’s long-awaited draft Public Lands Initiative (PLI), released on January 20th, is essentially a fossil fuel development bill that gives away public resources and fails to advance the conservation of public lands in eastern Utah. To educate the public on just how bad this bill really is, SUWA has...
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