Last year at this time we were reeling under the weight of the State of Utah’s 25+ newly filed R.S. 2477 lawsuits which claimed title to more than 14,000 roads covering more than 36,000 miles. Few wild places were spared from this onslaught. Not national parks. Not the Grand Staircase-Escalante...
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2013 Year End Dragons and Daisies
As 2013 draws to a close, the Redrock wilderness faces both great threats and opportunities. Yet despite a busted Congress and a disappointing Obama administration, the future of the canyons looks brighter now than it did on Jan 1st — thanks to supporters like you. The threats: Utah’s War on...
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Preserving Utah Wilderness Could Protect Colorado’s Snow
Over at HCN’s The Goat Blog, Sarah Jane Keller reports on a new study that shows how helping desert soil could save Western Colorado’s snowpack: Southwest Colorado’s snowpack is the West’s hardest-hit when spring winds carrying tiny dust particles slam into the mountains. That cinnamon layer coating the snow means...
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SUWA’s 30th anniversary gala was a smashing success, thanks to all of you!
SUWA's 30th anniversary "Redrock & Pearls" gala on Saturday night was an evening we'll long remember. Roughly 400 attendees packed the Canyon Atrium of the Natural History Museum of Utah, which was enchantingly lit to simulate the colors and textures of a starlit night in Utah's canyon country.
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More great news! Wild lands in San Rafael Swell won’t be leased!
Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management made the right decision and dropped its plans to lease 80,000 acres of wilderness caliber lands in the San Rafael Swell for oil and gas development.
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