Redrock Headlines

SUWA Statement on the Designation of Bears Ears National Monument

Dec 28th, 2016 Written by suwa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 28, 2016 Moab, UT — In response to President Barack Obama designating the Bears Ears National Monument, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) Executive Director Scott Groene issued the following statement: “We applaud the President’s decision and congratulate the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition for this historic protection...

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Tell BLM: Deforestation Doesn’t Belong in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Dec 16th, 2016 Written by Kya Marienfeld

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), one of Utah’s most untamed landscapes and the “crown jewel” of the BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System, today faces a new threat from the very agency tasked with protecting it from human-caused harm. In the BLM’s latest push to drastically manipulate the West’s high desert...

Press Releases

Press Release: Statement Regarding Interior Secretary Nominee Rep. Ryan Zinke

Dec 15th, 2016 Written by suwa

In response to news reports that Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) has accepted President-Elect Donald Trump’s nomination for Interior Secretary, SUWA Executive Director Scott Groene released the following statement.

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Press Release: Moab Master Leasing Plan Will Protect Utah’s Redrock Lands

Dec 15th, 2016 Written by suwa

Blueprint for protecting Utah’s redrock lands provides more certainty for future energy development For Immediate Release THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY * NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL * SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981 Salt Lake City (December 15, 2016): The Bureau of Land Management today issued...

Oil and Gas Development

Press Release: BLM Defers Two Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Parcels in Nine Mile Canyon; More Work Remains to be Done

Dec 9th, 2016 Written by Landon Newell

Yesterday afternoon, December 8, BLM announced its decision to defer from leasing two highly contested oil and gas lease parcels in Nine Mile Canyon, citing unresolved issues regarding impacts to rock art and other cultural resources.