Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Presentation & Discussion: Service as Recreation: Hands-on Conservation on Utah’s Public Lands Abstract: SUWA’s volunteer service program is focused on the practical, hands-on address of impacts and impairments to Utah’s wilderness-quality public lands. As visitation continues to outpace agency management capacity, user impacts to natural and cultural resources increase exponentially....
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLM Withdraws Permit for Helicopter Shuttles Near Bighorn Habitat Outside of Moab Following SUWA Appeal Contact: Kya Marienfeld, Wildlands Attorney, 435-259-5440, kya@suwa.org Moab, UT (March 11, 2019) – The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Moab field office has withdrawn a multi-year special recreation permit authorizing a private...
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Transform your recreation into stewardship! Across Utah’s public lands there is a pressing need to ensure that negligent and willfully destructive/illegal activities do not exacerbate other threats to proposed and designated wilderness. Under the present administration, we have witnessed a rise in blatant or thinly concealed efforts to undermine the...
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The Land Located in northeastern Utah, the Uinta Mountains were named for the Uintaat Indians, early relatives of the modern Ute Tribe. The High Uintas Wilderness envelops the wild core of this massive mountain range. Characterized by the highest peaks in Utah, countless lakes, and a unique alpine ecosystem, it...
Read MoreTogether, we just protected 663,000 acres of wilderness in the San Rafael Swell and Labyrinth and Desolation canyons! This represents the greatest legislative victory in SUWA’s history and we couldn’t have done it without YOU. Please come celebrate with us! Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 6pm – 8:30pm Mountain West Hard...
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