Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 2026 In Less Than a Month, Mining Claims Filed in Bear Ears Already Triple the Total Number Filed During Previous Trump Reduction Within a day, industry clamoring to exploit landscape Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.orgKeri Gilliland, The Wilderness Society,...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2026 Senator Lee Formally Begins Process to Fast-track the Destruction of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah – 9.17.26 Within a day, industry clamoring to exploit landscape Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.orgKeri Gilliland, The Wilderness Society, (KGilliland@tws.org)Chaitna Sinha, Conservation...
Read More FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2026 UPDATE – Additional Mining Claims Filed in Lands Cut from Bears Ears National Monument Within a day, industry clamoring to exploit landscape Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.orgKeri Gilliland, The Wilderness Society, (KGilliland@tws.org)Chaitna Sinha, Conservation Codirector and Staff Attorney,...
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In July, when President Trump illegally decimated Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, SUWA said we would fight his actions in every way we can, using every tool in our toolbox, for as long as necessary. I’m writing today with an important update on that fight. This morning we...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 2026 Conservation Groups Challenge Trump’s Decimation of Two National Monuments in Utah – 9.2.26 Supplemental complaints to reactivate 2017 monuments litigation in DC District Court Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org Washington, DC – Conservation groups today challenged President Trump’s...
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