Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 14, 2026 Mining Claims Filed Immediately After Trump Decimates National Monuments in Utah – 8.14.26 Attempts to file mining claims in Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments shows industry clamoring to exploit landscapes Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.orgAutumn...
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August 5, 2026 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUWA Statement on BLM’s Cancellation of 10 New Backcountry Airstrips in Redrock Country – 8.5.26 None of the airstrips were previously designated and many were reclaimed Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org Salt Lake City, UT – Monday, following a formal appeal from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), the Bureau of...
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Another day, another threat to America’s public lands and Utah’s wild places. The Trump administration is now undertaking a sweeping review of existing policies on the management of designated wilderness, wilderness study areas, and wilderness-quality lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 30, 2026 Trump administration works to erase Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments Removal of signage for both National Monuments conducted in recent days Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.orgAmy Dominguez, Deputy Press Secretary, Sierra Club, (385) 355-4631; amy.dominguez@sierraclub.orgCaitlyn...
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In April, when the Trump administration first announced it wanted to open the Greater Chaco Canyon region in New Mexico to oil and gas drilling, we asked you to speak up. Following an initial scoping period that generated over 100,000 comments in support of maintaining broad protections for this remarkable...
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