47 members of Congress defend “Wild Lands” policy “In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar this week, Democrats led by House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Edward Markey (D-Mass.) say the ‘wild lands’ policy restores balance to public lands management that was missing in the Bush era.” Read more...
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Utah Wilderness News, January 21, 2011
Rolling back environmental policies would be a grievous mistake for the country “On another front, Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee has spoken out against Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s order to the Bureau of Land Management to move ahead to protect lands with wilderness qualities. The mandate overturns a deal made...
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Success! BLM to Utah: new wilderness protection coming
Last week, wilderness protection in Utah got a needed boost as National Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Bob Abbey came to Utah to discuss the new BLM wilderness guidance that has the potential to give needed protection to 6 million acres of wilderness-quality lands across the state. In the...
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No, we don’t hate your dog (and other misconceptions about wilderness)
Misconceptions about which activities are and are not allowed in designated wilderness have always been floating around, but with Interior Secretary Salazar’s reversal of the Bush-era “No More Wilderness” policy a few weeks ago, those inaccurate statements have been out in full swing. Earlier this week, I received a Google...
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Tenth Circuit rules in our Monument case involving Kane County R.S. 2477 road claims
On January 11, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an opinion in a case brought by SUWA and The Wilderness Society that challenged Kane County’s attempt to undermine federal land management of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. In a fairly technical ruling, the court held...
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