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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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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Federal appeals court rejects BLM’s request to delay cultural resource surveys
Just as we were about to say goodbye to 2015, the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a welcome decision in our longstanding Utah resource management plan litigation. On December 30th the Circuit Court denied a request by the BLM to indefinitely delay surveys for cultural artifacts on lands...
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Sen. Hatch Introduces Bill to Expand Testing Range Across Wildlands, Hand Out Roads to Counties
Last week, Utah Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee introduced a bill that would create a massive “withdrawal” zone across Bureau of Land Management lands, effectively expanding the operational footprint of the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR). The training range in Utah’s West Desert is used by the Army,...
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Op-ed: Bishop is wrong, Utah’s Native Americans want Bears Ears protected
We wanted to make sure you saw this op-ed from Herman Daniels, Jr. in Sunday’s edition of the Salt Lake Tribune. Mr. Daniels is a Navajo Nation Council Delegate representing the Utah communities of Naa’tsis’Áán (Navajo Mountain) and Oljato (Monument Valley). He writes: Recently, a number of people have tried...
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