Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Plan Undermines Standards for National Monument Protections, Ignores Public Opposition and Ongoing Litigation Over Reduced Boundaries ESCALANTE, Utah (August 23, 2019) – Today, local and national groups, businesses and globally-respected scientist organizations, denounced the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) release of management plans for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as another step toward undermining...
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Over the weekend, SUWA’s Service Program organized a Wilderness Stewardship Training in Salt Lake City. Forty trainees attended the Saturday session, twenty-four of whom then took part in a training hike on Sunday to practice their monitoring skills on a portion of Stansbury Island (Great Salt Lake) that’s proposed for...
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BLM’s “wild west” mentality will deface Utah landscape For Immediate Release Contact: Laura Peterson, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 801-236-3762 Anne Hawke, Natural Resources Defense Council, 646-823-4518 Phil Hanceford, The Wilderness Society, 303-225-4636 Salt Lake City, UT (August 1, 2019) – Three conservation organizations filed suit today in federal district court...
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The Work We will be building and installing buck and rail fencing at the mouth of (2) canyons, each of which contain vulnerable natural springs, to ensure prevention of motorized travel into these areas and resultant impacts on the ecological health of the landscape. Work tasks will vary by...
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Join our crew a weekend honoring National Public Lands Day with SUWA and the US Forest Service in the La Sal Mountains! Details to follow.
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