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Wilderness Stewardship Training Draws a Crowd!

Over the weekend, SUWA’s Service Program organized a Wilderness Stewardship Training in Salt Lake City. Forty trainees attended the Saturday session, twenty-four of whom then took part in a training hike on Sunday to practice their monitoring skills on a portion of Stansbury Island (Great Salt Lake) that’s proposed for...

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Conservation Groups Sue BLM Over Decision to Allow Cross-Country Motorized Use around Utah’s Remarkable Factory Butte

BLM’s “wild west” mentality will deface Utah landscape For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Peterson, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801-236-3762 Anne Hawke, Natural Resources Defense Council, 646-823-4518 Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness Society, 303-225-4636 Salt Lake City, UT (August 1, 2019) – Three conservation organizations filed suit today in federal district court...

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For the Third Time in Less Than Three Months, the BLM Recognizes It Violated Law, Pulls Back Oil and Gas Leasing Decisions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Approximately 57,000 acres of remote, wild, and culturally significant public lands temporarily spared from oil and gas development Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981, steve@suwa.org Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3991, landon@suwa.org Salt Lake City (July 18, 2019): For the third time in less...

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