Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
New BLM director will hopefully reform and improve Utah land management "But Salazar's reforms of the Bureau of Land Management's environmental review practices, and his decision to replace Selma Sierra with Juan Palma as Utah BLM director, point the national and local offices toward better stewardship. Sierra dutifully carried out...
Read MoreMay 2010 Here’s what is happening this month with the redrock:1. Find out what is happening with the San Juan County wilderness process.2. TAKE ACTION – Ask the White House to address climate change in public lands decisions.3. Send us photos or videos of your family exploring Utah’s wild lands!4. ...
Read MoreWhen we showed up in Monticello this past Tuesday morning, ten days had passed since Senator Bennett’s loss at the Utah Republican convention. The future of the process to determine the fate of the San Juan—Canyonlands Wilderness was definitely in doubt when Bennett’s aide, Brad Shafer, cleared the air. Brad...
Read MoreSelma is out! New BLM director for Utah Steve Bloch, an attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, said that Sierra’s departure was expected. “She did not and could not represent the kind of change in direction that [Interior] Secretary [Ken] Salazar says he wants,” said Bloch, whose conservation group...
Read MoreAlthough many predicted it, Senator Bennett’s defeat in last Saturday’s Republican Convention still came in a cloud of disbelief. Even those of us who have lived here forever and have grown used to Utah’s political antics were shocked. We’ve heard from friends from other places who are worried that the...
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