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BLM Releases Long-Delayed, Destructive Travel Plan for Utah’s San Rafael Desert

Aug 24th, 2020 Written by suwa

For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Peterson, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance 801-236-3762, laura@suwa.org Salt Lake City, UT (August 24, 2020) – On Friday, August 21, the Bureau of Land Management released the final motorized vehicle travel management plan for the San Rafael Desert in eastern Emery County, Utah. Left unchecked, this plan...

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BLM Wants to Open up San Rafael Desert to Twice as Much Motorized Use

Dec 19th, 2019 Written by suwa

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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BLM Releases Disastrous Draft Travel Plan for the San Rafael Desert

Dec 16th, 2019 Written by suwa

Offers public only 30 days, including over the holidays, to submit comments on a plan that has been years in the making. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Laura Peterson, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801-236-3762, laura@suwa.org Soren Jespersen, The Wilderness Society, 970-819-7377, soren_jespersen@tws.org Salt Lake City, UT (December 16, 2019) – On...

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Where do ATVs belong on our public lands?

Nov 5th, 2019 Written by Laura Peterson

As you no doubt have heard, the National Park Service (NPS) recently abandoned a proposal to allow certain off-road vehicles in Utah’s national parks and monuments. That proposal provoked enough public outrage to force the Trump administration to reverse course and keep the longtime closure of park roads to off-road...

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Interior Board Overturns BLM Decision to Replace Native Forests with Exotic Livestock Forage in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Sep 17th, 2019 Written by suwa

Decision finds BLM ignored cumulative impacts and failed to comply with the Monument’s prohibitions on using non-native seed Moab, UT (September 17, 2019) – The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) yesterday set aside a decision by the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Grand Staircase-Escalante National...