Selma is out! New BLM director for Utah Steve Bloch, an attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, said that Sierra’s departure was expected. “She did not and could not represent the kind of change in direction that [Interior] Secretary [Ken] Salazar says he wants,” said Bloch, whose conservation group...

Department of Interior needs to clarify and prioritize SUWA’s own Associate Director Heidi McIntosh writes an impassioned editorial about Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s visit to Utah.  Read more at The Salt Lake Tribune.  Commissioners and Environmentalists unite to work towards San Jaun bill Senator Bob Bennett has...

Not the powder days they want: Dust spells trouble for Colorado skiers “As a skier, Auden Schendler sums it up with pragmatic simplicity. “You can’t wax for dirt,” he says. As the Aspen/Snowmass director of community and environmental responsibility, Schendler’s concerns for the disconcerting dust and dirt layers that have...

Torn up soil in Utah’s redrock also slashes Colorado’s ski season “The red dust blanketing area mountains and virtually every surface in Aspen is a result of oil and gas development and off-road vehicle activity in southeastern Utah, according to David Garbett, staff attorney with Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. He...

Sec. Salazar brings rock-solid sense to management of Nine Mile Canyon "Interior Secretary Ken Salazar continues to make good on his promise to restore much-needed balance and common sense to the regulation of oil and gas drilling in the West. And, so far, Utah has been the centerpiece of Salazar's...