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A New Administration: The First 10 Days

The Earth and all its inhabitants face the dire threats of climate change and the loss of nature, including extinctions. And in its first ten days the Biden administration has already taken meaningful steps to address those threats. It isn’t our job at SUWA to cheerlead for a particular administration,...

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SUWA Statement on President Biden’s Executive Order on the Climate Crisis

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contacts: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3991, landon@suwa.org  Steve Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, (801) 428-3981, steve@suwa.org  Salt Lake City, UT (January 27, 2021) – President Biden today issued an Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, which, among other things,...

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2021 Washington County Wilderness Stewardship Training

Transform your recreation into stewardship! Across Washington County’s designated wilderness areas there is a need to ensure that user activities do not result in unchecked impacts to natural and cultural resources. The rapid growth of Utah’s recreation economy is profoundly impacting our public lands. SUWA’s Service Program works every year...

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Supreme Court Declines to Review Court Decision on Contentious Public Lands Litigation

State of Utah’s sprawling litigation claiming more than 12,000 dirt paths and stream bottoms as “highways” threatens redrock wilderness across the state Contacts: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981, steve@suwa.org  Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness Society, 303.815.3158, phil_hanceford@tws.org Brian Fletcher, Stanford Law School Supreme Court Clinic, 917.453.9477, bfletcher@stanford.edu  Salt Lake...

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