Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
March 5, 2024FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Federal Appeals Court Confirms Conservation Groups’ Right to Participate in Lawsuit Threatening Utah’s Remarkable Federal Public Lands – 3.5.24 SUWA Statement on 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Bellwether Decision Contacts: Stephen Bloch, Legal Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); steve@suwa.orgGrant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness...
Read MoreThe Bureau of Land Management Failed to Decide the Application During the Trump Administration FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Michelle White, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.236.3775 Liam Kelly, National Parks Conservation Association, 213.814.8666 Anne Hawke, Natural Resources Defense Council, 646.823.4518 Jennifer Dickson, The Wilderness Society, 303.650.9379 Salt Lake City, UT (March...
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State of Utah’s sprawling litigation claiming more than 12,000 dirt paths and stream bottoms as “highways” threatens redrock wilderness across the state Contacts: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981, steve@suwa.org Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness Society, 303.815.3158, phil_hanceford@tws.org Brian Fletcher, Stanford Law School Supreme Court Clinic, 917.453.9477, bfletcher@stanford.edu Salt Lake...
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Utah’s public lands are facing death by a thousand cuts. And now the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) near St. George—home to the densest population of threatened Mojave desert tortoise anywhere on earth—is on the chopping block. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is being pressured by Washington County,...
Read More The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering giving away the United States’ interest to a 10-mile dirt road (the so-called “Manganese Road”) in the southwest corner of Utah. This is a test case brought by the State of Utah that, if successful, would open the door for the Trump...
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