Unfortunately, the draft public lands initiative (PLI) released today, on January 20, does not advance the conservation of public lands in eastern Utah. It is lipstick on a pig and a Trojan Horse that will take conservation backwards.
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Press Release: Joint Statement on Draft Public Lands Initiative
For more than three years we have worked in good faith to reach a compromise on public lands issues in eastern Utah through the Public Lands Initiative (PLI).
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Poll Shows Strong Majority of Utahns Support Protecting Bears Ears — Add Your Voice!
Big news! A new poll shows that 2/3 of Utah residents support the creation of a Bears Ears National Monument. The highly-regarded Conservation in the West Poll, issued annually by the Colorado College State of the Rockies Project, found that 66% of Utahns support monument designation for nearly two million...
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Court Rejects BLM’s Request to Delay Cultural Resource Surveys
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE * EARTHJUSTICE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4, 2015 Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981 Robin Cooley, Earthjustice, 303.996.9611 SALT LAKE CITY: Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, CO rejected a request by the Bureau of Land...
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Sen. Hatch Introduces Bill to Expand Testing Range Across Wildlands, Hand Out Roads to Counties
Last week, Utah Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee introduced a bill that would create a massive “withdrawal” zone across Bureau of Land Management lands, effectively expanding the operational footprint of the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR). The training range in Utah’s West Desert is used by the Army,...
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