SUWA Grassroots Leaders Retreat, Moab, Utah May 14-16, 2010 Blog entry by Stephen Trimble We were exhilarated by the setting—Canyonlands Field Institute—nestled against the buttes and spires separating Utah’s Professor and Castle valleys. The La Sal Mountains rose to elegant snowy points, upcanyon, and sunset dramatized the red buttresses of...
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Action Alert, May 28, 2010
Nokai Dome in the San Juan-Canyonlands region. Photo copyright Harvey Halpern. Over the past two months, we’ve participated in a series of meetings with San Juan County commissioners and representatives of Senator Bob Bennett to discuss the merits of wilderness designations within the San Juan-Canyonlands landscape. Throughout Senator Bennett’s process,...
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Utah Wilderness News, May 26, 2010
Robert Redford: Protecting America's wild lands "I have lived most of my life in the West, and I have seen too many special places lost. Each time it happens, our children's wilderness inheritance shrinks even further. It doesn't have to be this way. We can protect our last remnants of...
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Utah Wilderness News, May 25, 2010
After 5 years work, Beaver-Piute legislation tabled indefinitely Beaver County is putting its proposed land bill on hold after two open house meetings in Milford and Beaver on Monday and Tuesday were attended by residents who strongly oppose the legislation. Read more at The Spectrum Daily News Environmental groups attack...
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Utah Wilderness News, May 21, 2010
New BLM director will hopefully reform and improve Utah land management "But Salazar's reforms of the Bureau of Land Management's environmental review practices, and his decision to replace Selma Sierra with Juan Palma as Utah BLM director, point the national and local offices toward better stewardship. Sierra dutifully carried out...
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