Hot off the Press, February 24, 2010

BLM Plans Destruction of Old Growth Trees in National Monument and Proposed Wilderness
A coalition of national and local conservation groups has called on the
Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) to halt immediately the planned
destruction of old-growth pinyon and juniper trees on over 50,000 acres
in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and surrounding
lands, including those proposed for wilderness protection in America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act.”  Read more – SUWA Press Release