Lately, my job as “Field Advocate” has involved driving the boundaries of the areas in the Book Cliffs included in America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act in order to get familiar with boundaries and edges and specific landscape features. This has to be one of the largest, most spectacular, wildest regions...
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Utah Wilderness News, November 17, 2010
SUWA and partners challenge Utah land use plans "The groups, including the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), assert that the BLM violated federal environmental laws by failing to identify and protect areas that have wilderness qualities and could qualify for congressional designation for permanent protection. The plaintiffs also say the...
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Utah Wilderness News, November 10, 2010
Salazar should allow wilderness study areas "The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Sierra Club and other environmental groups and individuals contend that the 2003 agreement’s interpretation of FLPMA as authorizing only one inventory of wilderness-quality lands, the one completed in 1993, is wrong, unprecedented and unenforceable. We agree. And we’re disappointed...
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Changing the game
Today, we’re launching a sustained, multi-year media campaign in Utah to capitalize upon a growing shift in public opinion about wilderness in our state, and to further educate Utah residents about wilderness as an issue and a valuable part of our state and national heritage. Click here to visit the...
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Utah Wilderness News, November 4, 2010
Kane County, doing things the hard way "It is somewhat puzzling that Kane County would sue just months after the Interior Department agreed to cede control of five roads to the county without the county having to resort to legal action. Those five include the route from U.S. Highway 89...
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