Guest post by Jamie Pleune Jamie and Ryan Pleune kicked off the first ten miles of their 350 mile walk with a ten mile backpack in the San Rafael Swell accompanied by eleven high school students. The Pleunes are walking 350 miles through Utah to raise awareness for climate...
Read MoreCelebrating National Public Lands Day with Service
This video from SUWA's National Public Lands Day Service project was taken on September 25th, 2010. After consulting with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office, SUWA Field Inventory Specialist Ray Bloxham worked with 15 volunteers for 6 hours to build post and rail fences signifying the vehicle...
Read MoreUtah Wilderness News, October 4, 2010
Air quality problems plague Uintah Basin "Air pollution monitors recently installed in the Uintah Basin measured ozone concentrations exceeding federal health standards more than 68 times in the first three months of 2010, according to U.S. EPA data. On one day in January and two days in February, recorded ozone...
Read MoreUtah Wilderness News, September 21, 2010
USGS & NASA: Colo. Plateau dust causing early snowmelt; reduction could mitigate climate change Dust caused by human activities in the American desert Southwest is a contributing factor in speeding up the melting of snow and reducing runoff in the mountains of the Colorado River basin, according to a new...
Read MoreUtah Wilderness News, September 7, 2010
The citizen’s wilderness proposal is not dead “Nine million acres of globally significant wilderness really do remain within our public lands. Let’s listen to everybody — but we can never give up on the preservation and stewardship of Utah’s irreplaceable wild canyons and fragile deserts.” Letter-to-the-Editor – The Salt Lake...
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