Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Anyone who has visited the Island in the Sky region of Canyonlands National Park or Dead Horse Point State Park near Moab over the past few years has no doubt noticed the gradual spread of industrial development at the entrance to the parks in an area known as Big Flat....
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In August, the BLM’s Canyon Country District Office released the long-awaited Moab Master Leasing Plan for public review and comment. When finalized, this plan will govern the scope, pace and nature of oil, gas and potash development on more than 750,000 acres of public lands in the stunning Moab area....
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The San Rafael Swell is once again under attack from oil and gas leasing – and again sensitive and irreplaceable cultural, archaeological, paleontological, and wilderness values are at risk. More than 35,000 acres – all of them identified by BLM as possessing wilderness value – have been placed on the...
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Tell President Obama to protect our canyonlands!
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Last Friday, Utah BLM released the long awaited draft Moab master leasing plan (or Moab MLP) for a 90-day public review and comment period. BLM kicked off the master leasing plan process in May 2010 in direct response to litigation that SUWA and our partners brought in the last days...
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