Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
November 19, 2024 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUWA Statement on Senator Lee’s selection to lead Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee – 11.19.24 Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org Salt Lake City, UT – Today, it was announced that Senator Mike Lee was selected to lead...
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November 15, 2024 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SUWA Statement on the Final Emery County Land Exchange – 11.15.24 Contacts:Steve Bloch, Legal Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (801) 428-3981 steve@suwa.org Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org Salt Lake City, UT – On Wednesday, the Bureau of Land...
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November 7, 2024FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local and National Organizations Applaud Plan Signaling Denial of Highway Right-of-Way Federal agencies to release record of decision in 30 days Contacts: St. George, UT – Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released its final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement...
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The election was, without a doubt, a major setback in our work to protect the redrock wilderness. Instead of gaining new protections for the canyon country, we’ll be playing defense against the anti-public-lands Trump administration, backed by Utah’s politicians. Much of the progress we’ve achieved—everything from the restoration of Bears...
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[NOTE: The following letters from SUWA Executive Director Scott Groene and Board Chair Tom Kenworthy appear in the Autumn/Winter 2024 edition of our Redrock Wilderness print newsletter.] In September, I stood in a raucous Washington, DC bar watching the inaugural gathering of the newly minted National Wilderness Coalition. It was...
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