On January 11, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an opinion in a case brought by SUWA and The Wilderness Society that challenged Kane County’s attempt to undermine federal land management of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. In a fairly technical ruling, the court held...
Read MoreUtah Wilderness News, January 12, 2011
Utah politicians don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant “'Choke-hold' sound bites are more about scoring political points than ensuring balance and fairness for all. Here’s to a little less drama and a little more thoughtful debate." Op-ed – The Salt Lake Tribune Another Vernal,...
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On December 24, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar reversed the Bush-era “No More Wilderness” policy, creating a new “Wild Lands” policy that could potentially protect 6 million acres of wilderness in Utah (see our Associate Director’s note). Please thank Secretary Salazar for the new policy, but let him know that the...
Read MoreUtah Wilderness News, January 11, 2011
Rob Bishop: Public Land Zombie? “It’s not like Bishop would have to read all 78 pages of FLPMA. It’s right there on the first page, in the Declaration of Policy, where it says it is the policy of the United States that ‘the public lands be managed in a manner...
Read MoreUtah Wilderness News, January 7, 2011
Nothing conservative about wilderness opposition “Those real conservatives understood that truly wild places inspire self-reliance, personal responsibility, faith and spiritual renewal in a world where those conservative values are constantly under assault. They also recognized that in wilderness, freedom is found in its most fundamental form, and from it springs...
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