Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
As 2013 draws to a close, the Redrock wilderness faces both great threats and opportunities. Yet despite a busted Congress and a disappointing Obama administration, the future of the canyons looks brighter now than it did on Jan 1st — thanks to supporters like you. The threats: Utah’s War on...
Read MoreOver at HCN’s The Goat Blog, Sarah Jane Keller reports on a new study that shows how helping desert soil could save Western Colorado’s snowpack: Southwest Colorado’s snowpack is the West’s hardest-hit when spring winds carrying tiny dust particles slam into the mountains. That cinnamon layer coating the snow means...
Read MoreSUWA's 30th anniversary "Redrock & Pearls" gala on Saturday night was an evening we'll long remember. Roughly 400 attendees packed the Canyon Atrium of the Natural History Museum of Utah, which was enchantingly lit to simulate the colors and textures of a starlit night in Utah's canyon country.
Read MoreYesterday, the Bureau of Land Management made the right decision and dropped its plans to lease 80,000 acres of wilderness caliber lands in the San Rafael Swell for oil and gas development.
Read MoreSALT LAKE CITY, UTAH—The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) and IACX Energy, Dallas, TX, announced today that they have reached an agreement regarding IACX’s planned helium development in Emery County, Utah. The agreement was reached in advance of any appeals or litigation and resolves concerns raised by SUWA regarding the...
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