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,...

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...

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,...

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...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  August 25, 2026 Recreation, Conservation Groups Unite Against Forest Service Travel Rule Rollback  – 8.25.26 Proposal would gut protections for fish and wildlife, create chaos for public lands users Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department...