Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
For Immediate Release: June 12, 2017 Contact: Mathew Gross, (435) 259-4316 Today Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued an interim report that signaled his desire to greatly reduce the Bears Ears National Monument. A final report is expected in August. The following statement is from Mathew Gross, Media Director of the...
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Terrific news! The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has pulled back an outrageous proposal to lease federal public lands for oil and gas development at the doorstep of Zion National Park. And it was citizen action that made the difference! The problem emerged this past winter when the BLM identified...
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You stood up in defense of Bears Ears National Monument. Now we need you to do the same for Grand Staircase-Escalante. Over the last few weeks, you helped deluge the Department of Interior with more than 685,000 comments in support of Bears Ears. Thank you to everyone who took action! ...
Read MoreLongstanding litigation over six BLM-Utah land use plans and travel management plans brought to a close An order issued today by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit clears the way for BLM-Utah to begin implementing a comprehensive settlement agreement that will result in the completion of...
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SUWA’s field volunteers set things in motion on Sunday, May 21st, with the season’s first work trip. In collaboration with the Moab BLM, our crew set out for a side drainage into Ten Mile Canyon for the purpose of establishing habitat protections in sensitive bighorn sheep breeding grounds. Moab BLM...
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