Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Happy New Year from all of us at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Thank you for your strong support in 2010. Now let’s get to work in 2011! 2010 ended on a bright note with Secretary Salazar’s new wilderness guidance that could give needed protection to 6 million acres of...
Read MoreWild lands offer an opportunity for solitude "I am reminded of one aspect of wilderness that is personally critical. The 1964 Wilderness Act includes as one of several qualifying criterion for wilderness: an area that 'has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation.' The opportunity...
Read MoreMore appreciation for new BLM wilderness policy "The 'no more wilderness' policy adopted under former Interior Secretary Gale Norton did not serve our nation well. It would have been tragic for this policy to be continued only for the sake of commercial, primarily oil and gas, interests." Letter-to-the-Editor – Pantagraph Protecting wilderness...
Read MoreMore praise for Interior Secretary Salazar's holiday announcement: "The question now — and it’s a big one — is whether the bureau will exercise its restored authority." Editorial – The New York Times "Salazar realizes something that Utah’s leadership seems eager to forget, that wilderness can be at least as...
Read MoreWith your dogged determination and willingness to speak out for Utah wilderness, it was inevitable. And yesterday, it finally happened . . . Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar released new wilderness guidance that has the potential to give needed protection to 6 million of acres of wilderness-quality lands in Utah....
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