You know you’ve got a problem when even George W. Bush’s former Interior Secretary doesn’t think the Utah land grab will succeed. From E & E (subscription required): Former Interior Secretary Gale Norton questioned the viability today of conservatives’ efforts to transfer federal lands to state control… Asked by Utah...
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SUWA Launches Media Campaign to Highlight Costs of Utah’s Land Seizure
In 2012 the Utah legislature passed a bill demanding that the federal government turn over almost all public land in the state by the end of this year. With that deadline less than a month away, SUWA has launched a new statewide television, radio and web campaign to educate Utahns...
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Study Confirms Utah Land Grab Idea Half Baked
If Illegal Land Seizure Were to Occur, State Would Profit Only Through Heavy Industrialization of Utah’s Wildlands For Immediate Release. Contact: David Garbett, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801-428-3992 Salt Lake City – Today, a team of economists from three Utah universities released a report which shows that if Utah were to...
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Sen. Hatch Declares Herbert’s Land Grab Dead on Arrival
Last Friday, Senator Orrin Hatch had some glum words for Utah legislators who support Utah Governor Gary Herbert’s quixotic wasteful attempts to get the federal government to hand over public lands to the state of Utah. Speaking before the Utah legislature: Hatch told the Utah Legislature on Friday that its drive...
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RS 2477 Roads Litigation Update: SUWA Heads into the New Year on a Strong Note
Last year at this time we were reeling under the weight of the State of Utah’s 25+ newly filed R.S. 2477 lawsuits which claimed title to more than 14,000 roads covering more than 36,000 miles. Few wild places were spared from this onslaught. Not national parks. Not the Grand Staircase-Escalante...
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