Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), President-elect Trump’s nominee for Interior Secretary, finished his ‘How Do You Do?’ hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Tuesday. The results, as is often the case in the public lands universe, are coming up Utah. SUWA, naturally, welcomes any new...
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SUWA, The Wilderness Society, Earthjustice, and a coalition of eight other conservation groups, along with the Bureau of Land Management and off-highway vehicle groups have taken an important step to settle longstanding litigation filed in 2008 by the conservation groups which challenged six land use plans and off-highway vehicle travel...
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Utah’s most popular National Park threatened by sight and sound of development For Immediate Release: January 12, 2017 Contact: Landon Newell, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801.428.3991 Cory MacNulty, National Parks Conservation Association, 801.521.0785 SALT LAKE CITY – National Park advocates, local residents and conservationists are stunned over a just announced...
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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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