Tucked 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...
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Utah Wilderness News, April 5, 2010
Sec. 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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Utah Wilderness News, April 1, 2010
No more slick permits: The return of clarity and transparency to drilling policy Thanks to a successful partnership of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the Wilderness Society and The Nine Mile Canyon Coalition, it was announced yesterday that oil companies will no longer be able to skip needed environmental assessments...
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Hot Off the Press, March 31, 2010
Historic Preservation and Conservation Groups Settle Suit over BLM Approvals of Natural Gas Wells in Nine Mile Canyon Region “A coalition of historic preservation and conservation groups announced yesterday that they settled a lawsuit with the Bureau of Land Management filed in the summer of 2008 challenging the BLM’s approval...
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Wilderness Protection for Utah’s San Juan-Canyonlands Region?
It’s an exciting time for friends of redrock country! The San Juan-Canyonlands region of southeastern Utah contains some of the most iconic landscapes of the American West, including the ancient ruins of Cedar Mesa, the serpentine San Juan River, and the maze of canyons that comprise White Canyon in the...
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