Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
The “Utah Test and Training Range Encroachment Prevention and Temporary Closure Act” (H.R. 4579), introduced by Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), aims to give away federal public lands under the guise of national security. A companion to Senator Hatch’s S. 2383, the legislation would withdraw roughly 625,000 acres of BLM lands...
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HR 4313, the “Historic Route Preservation Act,” would significantly lower the standards for claiming so-called RS 2477 "highways," allowing counties and other special interest groups to win claims they never could now.
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It’s all hands on deck! If citizens don’t speak up, Utah wild lands could be lost forever. Utah Rep. Rob Bishop has unveiled his “Public Lands Initiative” and it is an utter disaster for Utah’s wild lands. The bill rolls back wilderness protection, creates vast fossil fuel development zones, sanctions...
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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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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.
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