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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument under Attack from Utah Members of Congress – 1.22.26

January 22, 2026 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument under Attack from Utah Members of Congress – 1.22.26 Threatens to bring chaos to a crown jewel of the nation’s public lands system and upend public land protection as we know it Contacts:Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness...

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Actions You Can Take to Defend Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is under attack.  The elected officials behind 2025’s failed public lands sell-off attempts – Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-UT-02) – introduced a joint resolution to undo the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan using the Congressional Review Act (CRA).  If both chambers of Congress...

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Federal Agency Re-Approves Highway Through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Abandons Own Scientific Findings 

ADVOCATES FOR THE WESTCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITYCONSERVE SOUTHWEST UTAHCONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCETHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYWILDEARTH GUARDIANS  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  January 21, 2026 Federal Agency Re-Approves Highway Through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Abandons Own Scientific Findings  Coalition of Local Residents and State and National Organizations Vow to Continue Decades-Long...

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Take Action to Protect the Boundary Waters Wilderness!

Like southern Utah’s redrock country, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota is a place of stunning beauty and peace; both are true gems in America’s system of public lands. But right now, Boundary Waters is in danger like never before from attacks by the Trump administration and...

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