Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
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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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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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...
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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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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...
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