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Happy Birthday Grand Staircase-Escalante!

Twenty-two years ago, the real Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was designated, encompassing one of our nation’s most spectacular and scientifically important wilderness landscapes. It includes world-class fossil sites, archaeological and historical treasures, unique geologic formations, and incredible intact ecosystems—all of which the monument’s original designation was designed to safeguard for...

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Update on #NotSoSwell Emery County Legislation

It was an interesting week for the Emery County Public Lands Act. The bill, sponsored by Rep. John Curtis and Sen. Orrin Hatch and introduced in May of this year, would affect 1.4 million acres of land proposed for wilderness designation in America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act. The legislation has...

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Protest BLM Oil & Gas Lease Sale

Opponents of the Trump administration’s plan to lease more than 200,000 acres of public lands for dirty fuel development near some of Utah’s most beloved landscapes will rally Tuesday, September 11th at noon in front of the Bureau of Land Management’s Salt Lake City office. PLEASE JOIN US and bring...

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Marmalade Jam Fest

The Capitol Hill Neighborhood Council presents the third annual Marmalade Jam Fest 2018, on Saturday, September 22nd from 10 am-6 pm! SUWA is looking for volunteers to staff our information booth. Please RSVP to dave@suwa.org, if you can help out. The event highlights the neighborhood’s long and colorful history of...

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