Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Thanks largely to fossil fuel development and consumption and the changes they are bringing to the planet’s climate, Utah – and particularly Utah’s canyon country – is predicted to be hotter and drier than ever. In fact, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the American Southwest, including Utah,...
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On March 2nd, over 600 Utahns poured into a “Citizens’ Hearing” in Salt Lake City on Utah Representative Rob Bishop’s Public Lands Initiative (PLI), packing a huge auditorium, lining the walls, and standing shoulder to shoulder a dozen deep in the back of the room. More people spilled out into...
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The “Utah Test and Training Range Encroachment Prevention and Temporary Closure Act” (H.R. 4579), introduced by Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), aims to give away federal public lands under the guise of national security. A companion to Senator Hatch’s S. 2383, the legislation would withdraw roughly 625,000 acres of BLM lands...
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HR 4313, the “Historic Route Preservation Act,” would significantly lower the standards for claiming so-called RS 2477 "highways," allowing counties and other special interest groups to win claims they never could now.
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It’s all hands on deck! If citizens don’t speak up, Utah wild lands could be lost forever. Utah Rep. Rob Bishop has unveiled his “Public Lands Initiative” and it is an utter disaster for Utah’s wild lands. The bill rolls back wilderness protection, creates vast fossil fuel development zones, sanctions...
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