Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Stephen Bloch, Legal Director, (801)-859-1552 or steve@suwa.org Washington, D.C. (September 24, 2018) — This morning, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ruled from the bench and denied a motion to transfer the lawsuits challenging President Trump’s illegal evisceration of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments to Utah....
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President Trump’s Interior Department just released draft management plans revealing their vision for how to manage what’s left of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments as well as the lands that were illegally excised from those monuments. It was only last December that the president unlawfully attacked both of...
Read More For Immediate Release August 15, 2018 Contact: Stephen Bloch, Legal Director, 801-428-3981 Salt Lake City, UT – In response to the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) release of draft management plans for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, which were illegally reduced by President Trump in December of last...
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Reports From the Field is a blog of SUWA’s Field Volunteers, accounting experiences, reflections and activism from time spent in direct service of Utah’s wild and public lands. When hiking and exploring Bears Ears National Monument, it is easy to lose oneself in the beauty and isolation of its many...
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As you know, on December 4th, 2017, the Trump administration illegally repealed Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, replacing them with two and three drastically smaller national monuments, respectively. This left over 2 million acres of cultural and natural wonders without protection. Despite legal challenges filed by SUWA and...
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