Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
The Land With the designation of Bears Ears National Monument on December 28th, 2016, a new layer of protection was granted to some of the most spectacular places in southern Utah. There is Cedar Mesa, with its incredible canyons running toward the San Juan River. There is White Canyon to...
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How do we balance off-road vehicle use with the critical need to protect southern Utah’s redrock wilderness? Anyone who visits southern Utah will inevitably hear the whine of off-road vehicles (ORVs) and see how their use has scarred the landscape. In southern Utah especially, the recent exponential growth of ORV...
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is developing a motorized travel management plan for the greater Paunsaugunt area outside of Kanab—a plan that will determine where off-road vehicle (ORV) use is allowed in this incredible place for decades to come. Just west of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and south of...
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Transform your recreation into stewardship! The rapid growth of Utah’s recreation economy is profoundly impacting our public lands. Across Grand County’s wilderness study areas there is need to ensure that user activities do not result in unchecked impacts to natural resources. SUWA’s Stewardship Program works every year to remediate, rehabilitate,...
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Utah Governor Cox and his pro-fossil-fuel allies are cynically trying to take advantage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to encourage President Biden to quickly lease publicly-owned lands across the United States, including in Utah. But issuing new leases will do little to alleviate rising fuel prices. First, the issuing of...
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