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Backroom 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.
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Agreement 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.
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Utah Wilderness News, February 15, 2011
Legitimizing an illegal ATV trail would be “disastrous” “If the Bureau of Land Management allows San Juan County to legitimize an illegal all-terrain-vehicle trail in Recapture Canyon, it might as well give up even a pretense of enforcing protections for scenic and archaeological treasures in other remote areas. Making this...
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Utah Wilderness News, February 14, 2011
House Republicans: "Wild Lands" not worth protecting "The bill would also prevent the Bureau of Land Management from implementing its new 'wildlands' policy, established in December by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The policy, which has been in Western Republicans' cross hairs, allows BLM to survey and provide interim protections for...
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