SUWA Latinx organizer Olivia Juarez speaks with activists Brooke Larsen (UPLIFT) and Eliza Van Dyk (Wasatch Rising Tide) about the protest, and about the intersection between the fight for climate justice and efforts to protect Utah’s remaining wild lands.
Read MoreA Plan to Plunder: Trump Administration Releases Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Plan Undermines Standards for National Monument Protections, Ignores Public Opposition and Ongoing Litigation Over Reduced Boundaries ESCALANTE, Utah (August 23, 2019) – Today, local and national groups, businesses and globally-respected scientist organizations, denounced […]
Read MoreWilderness Stewardship Training Draws a Crowd!
Over the weekend, SUWA’s Service Program organized a Wilderness Stewardship Training in Salt Lake City. Forty trainees attended the Saturday session, twenty-four of whom then took part in a training […]
Read MoreConservation Groups Sue BLM Over Decision to Allow Cross-Country Motorized Use around Utah’s Remarkable Factory Butte
BLM’s “wild west” mentality will deface Utah landscape For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Peterson, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801-236-3762 Anne Hawke, Natural Resources Defense Council, 646-823-4518 Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness […]
Read MoreTrump Administration Rushes Flawed Plan for Bears Ears National Monument
MOAB, UT — Utah’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to rush forward a plan for the illegally reduced Bears Ears National Monument that completely ignores the more than 1 […]
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