Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Petition asks administrative appeals board to ‘stay’ BLM decision to designate Indian Creek ATV trail FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 19, 2017 Contact: Kya Marienfeld, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 573-228-1061 Tim Peterson, Grand Canyon Trust, 801-550-9861 MOAB – Last Friday a coalition of conservation groups (Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Grand Canyon...
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Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), President-elect Trump’s nominee for Interior Secretary, finished his ‘How Do You Do?’ hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Tuesday. The results, as is often the case in the public lands universe, are coming up Utah. SUWA, naturally, welcomes any new...
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SUWA, The Wilderness Society, Earthjustice, and a coalition of eight other conservation groups, along with the Bureau of Land Management and off-highway vehicle groups have taken an important step to settle longstanding litigation filed in 2008 by the conservation groups which challenged six land use plans and off-highway vehicle travel...
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Utah’s most popular National Park threatened by sight and sound of development For Immediate Release: January 12, 2017 Contact: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3991 Cory MacNulty, National Parks Conservation Association, 801.521.0785 SALT LAKE CITY – National Park advocates, local residents and conservationists are stunned over a just announced...
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Breaking news! Today, President Barack Obama took action to honor and protect the heritage of Native Americans by designating Bears Ears National Monument using his authority under the Antiquities Act. This is a historic moment. The new national monument—the result of a proposal from an unprecedented coalition of Tribal Nations—will...
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