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All Hands on Deck: Citizens’ Hearing on Rep. Bishop’s Public Lands Initiative, March 2nd!

Feb 16th, 2016 Written by Scott Groene

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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SUWA Launches Media Campaign in Response to Terrible Public Lands Initiative

Feb 8th, 2016 Written by suwa

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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Tell Rep. Bishop the Draft Public Lands Initiative Doesn’t Cut It

Feb 4th, 2016 Written by David Garbett

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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Bishop’s “Grand Bargain” is a Grand Bust

Jan 20th, 2016 Written by Scott Groene

Unfortunately, the draft public lands initiative (PLI) released today, on January 20, does not advance the conservation of public lands in eastern Utah. It is lipstick on a pig and a Trojan Horse that will take conservation backwards.

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Press Release: Joint Statement on Draft Public Lands Initiative

Jan 20th, 2016 Written by suwa

For more than three years we have worked in good faith to reach a compromise on public lands issues in eastern Utah through the Public Lands Initiative (PLI).

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From coast to coast, activists all across the coun From coast to coast, activists all across the country have been advocating for Grand Staircase-Escalante. From meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, to postcard campaigns and meetings in local congressional offices—one thing is clear: CONGRESS SHOULD PROTECT OUR PARKS & MONUMENTS! The momentum is building.

Want to get involved? Reach out to your regional organizer to learn more at suwa.org/suwa-regional-organizers (link in bio). #protectwildutah #nationalmonuments #publiclands #keeppubliclandsinpublichands
Last week we asked you to take action to protect t Last week we asked you to take action to protect the Labyrinth Canyon area from a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposal to authorize the Keg Knoll backcountry airstrip for private aircraft takeoffs and landings. Now, the BLM’s Canyon Country District is proposing to designate TEN additional backcountry airstrips in the Moab and Monticello areas in remote locations. SIX of these locations are in highly-sensitive wildlife, wilderness-quality, or Monument-adjacent lands and should not be designated.

Please TAKE ACTION NOW using our easy action tool, it takes less than 2 minutes! (link in bio)

None of these airstrips have ever been officially designated, and despite past impacts from unauthorized use, most are essentially reclaimed and no longer functional for takeoff or landing. Reopening them would require removal of mature native plants like blackbrush, rabbitbrush, and junipers, fragmenting habitat and degrading wilderness characteristics that took years to recover. Several locations sit within BLM-identified wilderness-quality lands or directly adjacent to Bears Ears National Monument, where aircraft noise and visual intrusions would diminish the solitude, natural soundscapes, and cultural landscapes these areas were meant to protect.

Swipe to see where the most problematic airstrips are located.
Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announc Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that it would be reconsidering the San Rafael Desert and San Rafael Swell Travel Management Plans. Those two plans were finalized in 2022 and 2025 and guide where motorized vehicle use is allowed across more than 1.5 million acres of BLM-managed lands in Utah’s redrock country.  Those plans designated hundreds of miles of new motorized vehicle routes and authorized public motorized use on them. Now the Trump Administration’s BLM plans to go even further, increasing motorized recreation at the expense of all other public lands users. 

For more info visit link in bio. #protectwildutah
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Today is UTAHGIVES day—a community celebration of Today is UTAHGIVES day—a community celebration of the nonprofits that make our state stronger. From now until midnight, Utahns are coming together to support the organizations they love, and we hope you'll be part of it! 

Utah's canyon country is stunning and irreplaceable, but it’s also facing extraordinary pressure from anti-conservation interests: from public land sell-off attempts, to conservation rollbacks, to attacks on our national monuments. But if the last 40 years have taught us anything, it’s this: when our supporters show up, we can prevail, even in the toughest political climates.

So today, please visit our UTAHGIVES page (link in bio) and make a donation for the redrock. Then tell a friend! Every donation, whatever the size, is a direct investment in the Protect Wild Utah movement. Thanks for your support!

𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵: 𝘙𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘒𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳
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