Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
November 15, 2024 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUWA Statement on the Final Emery County Land Exchange – 11.15.24 Contacts:Steve Bloch, Legal Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (801) 428-3981 steve@suwa.org Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org Salt Lake City, UT – On Wednesday, the Bureau of Land...
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What happens when new land protections and wilderness are designated? While every land management journey is different, one thing’s for sure: the devil’s in the details. The latest episode of Wild Utah looks at this process through 663,000 acres of land recently designated as wilderness through the 2019 John D....
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This Friday, March 12th, marks the second anniversary of the Emery County Public Land Management Act becoming law as part of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. The Emery Act is one of the largest wilderness bills in a decade to become law, protecting 663,000 acres...
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The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments for a new travel management plan for the spectacular San Rafael Swell. With the designation of new wilderness areas in the Swell in 2019, and with the BLM’s poor track record of over-designating new routes through this kind of planning, your...
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Last Friday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a draft travel management plan for the San Rafael Desert in Emery County, Utah that would more than double the number of miles open to motorized use—forever changing the area’s stunning and remote wild lands, and turning them into a playground...
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