Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
The Land A vast wilderness east and south of Canyonlands National Park is contained within the Canyon Rims Recreation Area, which as its name suggests features many canyons, cliffs, mesas and eroded red rock formations, though also a lot of flat, rather featureless grassy plains. Most lies to the east,...
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It’s now been a year since President Biden issued his Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. Among other things, the order placed a pause on oil and gas leasing on federal public lands and committed the United States to a ten-year goal of conserving 30...
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Great news! Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) recently sent a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging her department to designate new wilderness study areas as part of the Biden administration’s goal of protecting 30 percent of public lands and waters by 2030. That crucial goal simply isn’t possible without the...
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Our e-newsletter with the latest on redrock wilderness news and events.
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What happens when new land protections and wilderness are designated? While every land management journey is different, one thing’s for sure: the devil’s in the details. The latest episode of Wild Utah looks at this process through 663,000 acres of land recently designated as wilderness through the 2019 John D....
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