Redrock Headlines

Interior Board Overturns BLM Decision to Replace Native Forests with Exotic Livestock Forage in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Sep 17th, 2019 Written by suwa

Decision finds BLM ignored cumulative impacts and failed to comply with the Monument’s prohibitions on using non-native seed Moab, UT (September 17, 2019) – The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) yesterday set aside a decision by the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Grand Staircase-Escalante National...

Blog

Climate Lawsuit Targets 130 Oil Leases on Public Lands in Utah

Sep 12th, 2019 Written by suwa

SALT LAKE CITY, UT (September 12, 2019)— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for failing to consider the climate pollution from 130 oil and gas leases spanning 175,500 acres of public lands in Utah. Today’s complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, says the Bureau...

Avenues Street Fair

Stop by the SUWA redrock activism booth at this year’s Avenues Street Fair. The Avenues Street Fair began in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1970s as a remodeling tool exchange. It expanded into a home tour event to see everyone’s handiwork with the borrowed tools, and eventually became a...

Podcast

Wild Utah Podcast, Episode 7: Your Time is Up!

Aug 28th, 2019 Written by suwa

SUWA Latinx organizer Olivia Juarez speaks with activists Brooke Larsen (UPLIFT) and Eliza Van Dyk (Wasatch Rising Tide) about the protest, and about the intersection between the fight for climate justice and efforts to protect Utah’s remaining wild lands.