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Action Alerts

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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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Help Protect the Greater Canyonlands Region

Feb 3rd, 2011 Written by Richard Peterson-Cremer

Utah’s wild canyonlands are once again threatened by oil and gas leasing – this time by a little known state agency, the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration or “SITLA.”  This past Monday, SITLA held an auction for oil, gas, and other mineral leases that cover some of Utah’s...

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Success! BLM to Utah: new wilderness protection coming

Jan 19th, 2011 Written by Deeda Seed

Last week, wilderness protection in Utah got a needed boost as National Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Bob Abbey came to Utah to discuss the new BLM wilderness guidance that has the potential to give needed protection to 6 million acres of wilderness-quality lands across the state. In the...

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This week, Sen. Lee took a major step toward overt This week, Sen. Lee took a major step toward overturning the Bears Ears Monument Management Plan by adding a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) opinion to the Congressional Record.

Under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), this opens the door for Congress to introduce a resolution of disapproval, which we anticipate will happen soon. If passed by a simple majority in both the House and Senate and signed by the President, the Bears Ears Management Plan would be undone.

The plan lays out how the monument will be managed for wildlife, outdoor recreation, dark skies, grazing, and other uses. Not to mention it would unravel years of collaboration between Tribal Nations and federal agencies while preventing a similar plan from being created in the future.

The move comes just days after 16 new mining claims were filed within Bears Ears National Monument.

For more info, visit link in bio.
Photo Credit: Tim Peterson
The Forest Service is rewriting its longstanding T The Forest Service is rewriting its longstanding Travel Management Rule, which determines where off-road vehicles can travel across national forests and grasslands. The proposal prioritizes ORV use at the expense of all other uses, including the protection of wildlife, cultural sites, healthy streams, and the solitude of wild places. 

❗Submit a comment NOW at link in bio.❗

There are already hundreds of thousands of miles of Forest Service roads nationwide,  facing a $9 billion maintenance backlog. Both the proposed Travel Management Rule change and the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule (alert from earlier this week) are part of the administration’s systematic dismantling of the rules and safeguards that keep national forests healthy and safe for the benefit of all. #protectwildutah
16 new mining claims have been filed on previously 16 new mining claims have been filed on previously protected land in Bears Ears National Monument. These lands became subject to mining claims on Friday, September 11th—60 days after President Trump decimated Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. All 16 claims were recorded on September 11th by noon. 

For more info on the mining claims, visit our full statement at link in @protectwildutah's bio.
The Trump administration continues its attacks on The Trump administration continues its attacks on public lands in its latest push to rescind the Roadless Rule, one of the country’s most important legal safeguards for undeveloped national forests. 🌲

✍ COMMENT NOW and tell the Forest Service to protect our nation’s wild forests by keeping the Roadless Rule intact! (link in bio or visit suwa.org)

Utah does not need more roads. National forests already contain hundreds of thousands of miles of roads nationwide, and there’s a multibillion-dollar maintenance backlog for these existing roads. This proposal is really about opening public lands to more industrial development, extraction, and privatization. 

Comment deadline is Tuesday, October 6.
Recent polling shows Utah voters overwhelmingly su Recent polling shows Utah voters overwhelmingly support restoring protections to all of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

Additionally, voters across political parties support a strong role for Native American Tribes in managing public lands containing sacred or culturally significant sites.

See the results at link in bio.
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