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Take Action to Protect Native Ecosystems in the West Desert!

Feb 28th, 2025 Written by Kya Marienfeld

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Conservation Groups Reach Settlement Requiring BLM to Abandon Rule Allowing Destruction of Pinyon-Juniper Habitats

Apr 20th, 2023 Written by suwa

Conservation Groups Reach Settlement Requiring Bureau of Land Management to Abandon Rule Allowing Destruction of Pinyon-Juniper Habitats FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 20, 2023 Contact:Kya Marienfeld, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (435) […]

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Interior Board Overturns BLM Decisions to Use Non-Native Livestock Forage and Chaining within Historic Boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Feb 18th, 2021 Written by suwa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kya Marienfeld, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 435-259-5440, kya@suwa.org  Laura Welp, Western Watersheds Project, 435-899-0204, laura@westernwatersheds.org  Decision finds BLM failed to consider project alternatives that would have […]

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Lawsuit Launched Over Trump Plan to Accelerate Clearcutting, Herbicide Spraying, Fuel Breaks Across Six Western States

Jan 13th, 2021 Written by suwa

Contacts: Scott Lake, Center for Biological Diversity, (802) 299-7495, slake@biologicaldiversity.org Kya Marienfeld, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (435) 259-5440, kya@suwa.org Paul Ruprecht, Western Watersheds Project, (208) 421-4637, paul@westernwatersheds.org Connie Howard, Sierra […]

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Eleventh-hour Trump Actions Prolong a “Scorched Earth” Policy that Threatens Western Public Lands

Dec 9th, 2020 Written by suwa

Contact: Kya Marienfeld, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 573-228-1061, kya@suwa.org Scott Lake, Center for Biological Diversity, 802-299-7495, slake@biologicaldiversity.org Gwen Dobbs, Defenders of Wildlife, 202-772-0269, gdobbs@defenders.org Chris Krupp, WildEarth Guardians, 206-417-6363, ckrupp@wildearthguardians.org […]

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SUWA is a proud founding member of the National Wi SUWA is a proud founding member of the National Wilderness Coalition, which began just a few years ago as a small group discussing the future of the wilderness movement and is now a nationwide coalition of over 50 organizations.

Earlier this year, the Coalition launched Voices for Wilderness, a project that collects stories, experiences, and perspectives about why wilderness and wild places matter. If you follow us on social,  you’re likely a prime candidate to share your story!

You can share your story in whatever format feels most natural—video, voice recording,  written response, etc. Examples from other wilderness enthusiasts and details about how to participate can be found at voicesforwilderness.com. 

To get you thinking, here are some of the questions you can respond to when sharing your story:
--Why does wilderness matter to you or your community?
--What experiences have shaped your connection to wild places?
--What do you hope for the future of the places you love?

Thank you for speaking up for wilderness!

📸 Whit Richardson
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting s The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting scoping comments on a proposal to sell 44 parcels spanning more than 74,000 acres of public land in Utah for oil and gas development. This sale is an especially bad one for redrock country as it includes a large block of parcels in the northern Dirty Devil region, parcels atop Horse Bench on the West Tavaputs Plateau, parcels scattered throughout the southern Uinta Basin, and several more in the Hatch Point region, just east of Bears Ears National Monument.

📣 ACT NOW 📣 (link in bio)

The public comment period is open through Thursday, July 16. Please tell the agency to keep oil and gas development out of Utah’s wild places.
Today, the federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals i Today, the federal 10th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision on an appeal brought in August 2023 by the State of Utah, Blue Ribbon Coalition, and others challenging President Biden’s October 2021 use of the Antiquities Act to restore the boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. The Circuit Court’s decision did three principal things: (1) it reversed the district court’s dismissal of the underlying lawsuits brought by Utah and others, (2) it affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the Blue Ribbon Coalition and other individual plaintiffs, and (3) it remanded the case to the district court to consider whether President Biden’s 2021 orders were lawful.

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Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ann Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it was moving forward on three Travel Management Plans in Utah: Trail Canyon (east of Zion National Park), Dinosaur North (near Dinosaur National Monument), and the Dolores River (northeast of Moab). Travel plans guide where motorized recreation is and is not allowed on public land; the agency is accepting public comment on the Trail Canyon and Dinosaur North Plans.

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Last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) iss Last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a decision approving 10 backcountry airstrips in the BLM’s Canyon Country District, which includes the Moab and Monticello field offices in the heart of Utah’s redrock country. These airstrips, many of which show no signs of recent use and none of which were open to use, are scattered across some of the most remote and ecologically sensitive landscapes in southern Utah—including the Gemini Bridges/Labyrinth Canyon area and the remote backcountry immediately adjacent to Bears Ears National Monument.

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