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SUWA Statement on Utah National Monument Plans

Salt Lake City, UT (February 6, 2020) – In response to the release today of the management plans for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA)  released the following statement: “We’re disappointed but not surprised that the BLM has finalized terrible management plan for...

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SUWA Praises BLM Withdrawal of Last Remaining Vegetation Removal Projects Proposed In Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Withdrawal Means Planned Vegetation Treatments in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Have Been Reduced From More Than 135,000 Acres to Zero  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kya Marienfeld, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 435-259-5440, kya@suwa.org Moab, UT (January 30, 2020) – The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is praising the withdrawal by the...

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SUWA, Partners’ Appeal Stymies 175 Oil & Gas Drilling Permits in Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon Region

The Trump administration’s rush for “energy dominance” encounters another setback in Utah; BLM forced to reanalyze environmental impacts of oil and gas development For Immediate Release Contact: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3991, landon@suwa.org Ann Alexander, Natural Resources Defense Council, 415.875.8243, aalexander@nrdc.org Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness Society, 303.225.4636, phil_hanceford@tws.org...

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Wild Utah Podcast, Episode 10: Let Me Tell You What I Think

Check out a short clip from our latest episode of Wild Utah: Listen to the full episode: Mark Maryboy made history when he was elected in 1986 as the first Native American county commissioner in Utah’s history — in San Juan County, home to Bears Ears National Monument. A former...

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