SUWA and partners challenge Utah land use plans "The groups, including the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), assert that the BLM violated federal environmental laws by failing to identify and protect areas that have wilderness qualities and could qualify for congressional designation for permanent protection. The plaintiffs also say the...

Salazar should allow wilderness study areas "The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Sierra Club and other environmental groups and individuals contend that the 2003 agreement’s interpretation of FLPMA as authorizing only one inventory of wilderness-quality lands, the one completed in 1993, is wrong, unprecedented and unenforceable. We agree. And we’re disappointed...

Kane County, doing things the hard way "It is somewhat puzzling that Kane County would sue just months after the Interior Department agreed to cede control of five roads to the county without the county having to resort to legal action. Those five include the route from U.S. Highway 89...

Widely criticized “No More Wilderness” Policy should be changed Seven years ago, the U.S. Interior secretary and the governor of Utah cut a land management deal that has reverberated across the West ever since. Through an unprecedented interpretation of federal law, this agreement allowed for the removal of federal protections...

Sign the Petition to Overturn the "No More Wilderness" Policy "It was the dark days of 2003, and environmental groups still hadn't quite grasped the full scope of the Bush administration's outrageous disregard for the planet. Then-Interior Secretary Gale Norton was in closed-door negotiations to settle a lawsuit with the...