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.
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Poll Shows Strong Majority of Utahns Support Protecting Bears Ears — Add Your Voice!
Big news! A new poll shows that 2/3 of Utah residents support the creation of a Bears Ears National Monument. The highly-regarded Conservation in the West Poll, issued annually by the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project, found that 66% of Utahns support monument designation for nearly two million...
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Good News x2: Utah BLM Postpones Lease Sale, Federal Judge Rebuffs Agency Foot-Dragging
We have two good pieces of news to share as this week comes to a close. First, BLM’s Utah state office decided to postpone the November 2015 oil and gas lease sale and the offering of 36 parcels (totaling more than 36,000 acres) in the Vernal, Price and Fillmore field...
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Tribes Formally Present Bears Ears Proposal to Pres. Obama
Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Co-Chair Eric Descheenie at the National Press Club. Last week, the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition traveled to Washington, D.C., to deliver their proposal to President Obama to protect 1.9 million acres of public land in southern Utah as a collaboratively managed national monument. A copy of the...
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Bears Ears, the Public Lands Initiative, and San Juan County
Recently, newspaper stories and rumors have swirled around both a potential national monument in San Juan County, Utah, and Rep. Rob Bishop’s Public Lands Initiative. Let me try and cut through the clutter to give you an idea where things currently stand. First, the monument. A historic coalition of Native-American...
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