Over 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...
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SUWA’s 30th anniversary gala was a smashing success, thanks to all of you!
SUWA'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.
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More great news! Wild lands in San Rafael Swell won’t be leased!
Yesterday, 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.
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Conservation Group and Energy Company Reach Agreement on Planned Helium Development in Emery County, Utah
SALT 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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Court Strikes Down Controversial Land Use Plan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 4, 2013 Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981 SALT LAKE CITY – Today the United States District Court for the District of Utah struck down significant parts of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Resource Management Plan for the Richfield Field Office, putting the...
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