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Action Alerts

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Ask Secretary Salazar to Protect Greater Canyonlands

Mar 16th, 2011 Written by Heidi McIntosh

The Greater Canyonlands area is a landscape of unmatched natural beauty -- and it needs your help.

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Tell Congress to protect America’s Redrock Wilderness

Feb 28th, 2011 Written by Jackie Feinberg

Tell Congress to protect America’s redrock wilderness! Dirty Devil proposed wilderness.  Photo by Ray Bloxham. Over the past 29 years, there has been one major reason why protection for Utah’s redrock wilderness areas has continued to move forward: YOU.  Because of redrock activists like you, over 5 million acres of...

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TAKE ACTION NOW – House debating anti-wilderness legislation today

Feb 17th, 2011 Written by Jackie Feinberg

The U.S. House of Representatives is debating an Appropriations bill that could deal huge setbacks to Utah's redrock country.

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URGENT – Tell your Rep. to vote NO on anti-wilderness Continuing Resolution

Feb 16th, 2011 Written by Richard Peterson-Cremer

Today and tomorrow, the House of Representatives will be voting on the Continuing Appropriations Resolution and hundreds of amendments that have already been filed.  Please tell your Representative to oppose attacks on our wild lands! The bill is a disaster for the environment – taking aim at safeguards for air,...

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Take Action – “Wild Lands” under attack in Congress!

Feb 11th, 2011 Written by Richard Peterson-Cremer

A key tool to protect Utah’s redrock country is coming under attack!  Please contact your Members of Congress today to let them know how important the Bureau of Land Mangement’s “Wild Lands” Policy is to you! Want more information about the “Wild Lands” policy?  SUWA’s Associate Director Heidi McIntosh offers...

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📣 Utah and Salt Lake-area followers! We’ve got a s 📣 Utah and Salt Lake-area followers! We’ve got a special event - all about Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments! - coming up for you next Tuesday, Nov. 17. Details below or on the next slide. 

What: An Important Announcement about Our Next Step to Restore the National Monuments
When: Tuesday, Nov. 17 from 6 - 8 p.m.
Where: Red Butte Garden, Orangerie Room (300 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT)
Who: You! And your family members, friends, and colleagues who love the national monuments and want to see them protected. Please RSVP at the link in our bio. 

This won’t be a sit-down lecture or a wonky policy discussion (though you know we love those too!). It will be an interactive, engaging event rooted in our love for the national monuments and southern Utah’s wild places. You’ll leave with some new swag and, more importantly, feeling energized and excited about the path forward to hold Utah politicians accountable and to restore the National Monuments. 

We’ll have plenty of food and drink (including an open bar). Our request to you: wear or bring along any vintage SUWA apparel (t-shirts, hats, bandanas, whatever you’ve got!) and any faded Protect Wild Utah yard signs (or other political yard signs you’d like to get rid of!) — we’ll send you home with a new one. Questions? Let us know.
Yesterday, the US Senate voted 73-25 on a motion t Yesterday, the US Senate voted 73-25 on a motion to proceed that would expedite passage of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA), which is being championed by Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM). A link in our bio goes to our full statement from SUWA DC Director Travis Hammill and additional information on the bill’s potential impact on public lands in Southern Utah 

If you haven’t already, please reach out to your Senators to oppose this bill (also at the link in our bio.)
Take action today! Before the new, Democratically- Take action today! Before the new, Democratically-controlled Congress arrives in January, Senate negotiators, led by Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), are pushing forward permitting reform legislation that poses one of the most significant threats to America’s public lands, cultural heritage, Tribal sovereignty, and environmental protections in decades.

The deceptively-named Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) would weaken bedrock environmental laws, limit public participation, fast-track development projects, and make it far more difficult to challenge harmful decisions affecting public lands.

Please contact your senators and urge them to oppose BAAJA today! A vote could happen as soon as Monday, Nov. 9. Use the link in our bio.
Last night the trajectory changed for the redrock Last night the trajectory changed for the redrock wilderness. For the past two years we’ve been fighting for Utah’s wild places on three fronts: against a Republican-controlled Congress, against the president and his administration, and against the anti-public-lands state of Utah. Last night, when Democrats decisively took control of both the House and Senate, a new political reality emerged: one where wilderness and public lands will have champions in Congress with the power to deflect attacks from the administration.

The work ahead is hard. It will take many more hard years to restore Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, to pass the Red Rock bill, and to protect Utah’s wild places. But SUWA is in it for the long haul, and we know that people like you—at the heart of the Protect Wild Utah movement across the country—are too.

Thank you for casting your vote. Thank you for entrusting us to do this work and for financially supporting us if you’re able. We’re deeply grateful. What we said after the 2024 election still rings true: “We can protect the places and values that matter. Together, we will.”

Read our full blog post on yesterday’s election at the link in our bio.
A new Senate bill, the American Affordability and A new Senate bill, the American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA), could move forward as soon as November 9. While it's being promoted as a jobs and affordability measure, it could have major consequences for public lands and some of Utah's wildest places.

The bill undermines Tribal sovereignty and rewrites provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act that would restrict what is considered an important cultural site, and make consultation with Tribes and communities optional. This bill also fast-tracks data center proposals on public lands—proposals like Project Beehive in Carbon County, Utah and many more awful things.

Read more at link in bio.
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