After years of missed deadlines, Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT) finally introduced his long-delayed Public Lands Initiative (PLI) yesterday. As anticipated, the PLI fails to protect Utah’s remarkable public lands and divests the American people of their public lands heritage. There is no chance this terrible bill could be passed in...
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June 2016 Redrock Report
Our e-newsletter with the latest on redrock wilderness news and events.
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SUWA Launches Media Campaign in Response to Terrible Public Lands Initiative
Rep. Bishop’s long-awaited draft Public Lands Initiative (PLI), released on January 20th, is essentially a fossil fuel development bill that gives away public resources and fails to advance the conservation of public lands in eastern Utah. To educate the public on just how bad this bill really is, SUWA has...
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Bishop’s “Grand Bargain” is a Grand Bust
Unfortunately, the draft public lands initiative (PLI) released today, on January 20, does not advance the conservation of public lands in eastern Utah. It is lipstick on a pig and a Trojan Horse that will take conservation backwards.
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Court Rejects BLM’s Request to Delay Cultural Resource Surveys
SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE * EARTHJUSTICE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4, 2015 Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981 Robin Cooley, Earthjustice, 303.996.9611 SALT LAKE CITY: Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, CO rejected a request by the Bureau of Land...
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