Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
On April 24, the Editorial Board of Utah’s largest newspaper, the Salt Lake Tribune, argued strongly for President Obama to designate a Bears Ears National Monument: Just about everyone who spoke at Wednesday’s meeting of the Utah Commission for the Stewardship of Public Lands was arguing for President Obama to...
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On Tuesday, March 15, a group of students from campuses along the Wasatch Front gathered at the Utah State Capitol in united opposition to Rep. Bishop’s Public Lands Initiative (PLI), and to show support for a Bears Ears National Monument as proposed by a historic coalition of Native American Tribes....
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Unfortunately, the draft public lands initiative (PLI) released today, on January 20, does not advance the conservation of public lands in eastern Utah. It is lipstick on a pig and a Trojan Horse that will take conservation backwards.
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For more than three years we have worked in good faith to reach a compromise on public lands issues in eastern Utah through the Public Lands Initiative (PLI).
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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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