SOUTHERN UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE * EARTHJUSTICE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 4, 2015 Contact: Stephen Bloch, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3981 Robin Cooley, Earthjustice, 303.996.9611 SALT LAKE CITY: Last week the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, CO rejected a request by the Bureau of Land...
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Sen. Hatch Introduces Bill to Expand Testing Range Across Wildlands, Hand Out Roads to Counties
Last week, Utah Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee introduced a bill that would create a massive “withdrawal” zone across Bureau of Land Management lands, effectively expanding the operational footprint of the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR). The training range in Utah’s West Desert is used by the Army,...
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CategoriesBears Ears
Op-ed: Bishop is wrong, Utah’s Native Americans want Bears Ears protected
We wanted to make sure you saw this op-ed from Herman Daniels, Jr. in Sunday’s edition of the Salt Lake Tribune. Mr. Daniels is a Navajo Nation Council Delegate representing the Utah communities of Naa’tsis’Áán (Navajo Mountain) and Oljato (Monument Valley). He writes: Recently, a number of people have tried...
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CategoriesARRWA
Good News x2: Utah BLM Postpones Lease Sale, Federal Judge Rebuffs Agency Foot-Dragging
We have two good pieces of news to share as this week comes to a close. First, BLM’s Utah state office decided to postpone the November 2015 oil and gas lease sale and the offering of 36 parcels (totaling more than 36,000 acres) in the Vernal, Price and Fillmore field...
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CategoriesAction Alerts
Moab’s Wild Places Need Your Voice!
Tired of hearing about lease sales and drilling proposals in the heart of Utah’s canyon country? Now is your chance to influence the planning process and keep new roads, oil rigs, waste pits, and pipelines out of Utah’s most iconic redrock landscapes. The BLM’s Canyon Country District Office is accepting...
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