Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Not the powder days they want: Dust spells trouble for Colorado skiers “As a skier, Auden Schendler sums it up with pragmatic simplicity. “You can’t wax for dirt,” he says. As the Aspen/Snowmass director of community and environmental responsibility, Schendler’s concerns for the disconcerting dust and dirt layers that have...
Read MoreApril 2010 Here's what is happening this month with the redrock: 1. No more slick oil and gas permits from BLM due to a SUWA settlement.2. Share your photos and stories from visits to White Canyon in southeastern Utah.3. Remember to submit your entries for SUWA's photo contest! 4. SW Coloradans:...
Read MoreTorn up soil in Utah’s redrock also slashes Colorado’s ski season “The red dust blanketing area mountains and virtually every surface in Aspen is a result of oil and gas development and off-road vehicle activity in southeastern Utah, according to David Garbett, staff attorney with Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. He...
Read MoreTucked between the rivers slowed by Lake Powell, a wilder, more unpredictable set of wonders can be found. Here, in the still unprotected Glen Canyon wilderness, sandstone domes and mesas rise beyond the reaches of the Colorado and San Juan rivers – reminders of the pristine beauty that once dominated...
Read MoreSec. Salazar brings rock-solid sense to management of Nine Mile Canyon "Interior Secretary Ken Salazar continues to make good on his promise to restore much-needed balance and common sense to the regulation of oil and gas drilling in the West. And, so far, Utah has been the centerpiece of Salazar's...
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