More on the lawsuit to save Nine Mile Canyon: people.com/plan-to-blas...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance
@protectwildutah.bsky.social
Defending Utah's wild lands since 1983. #protectwildutah
@protectwildutah.bsky.social@protectwildutah.bsky.socialAs we head into the long weekend to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, let's recognize that recent polling shows overwhelming support among Utah voters for Native American Tribes to play a strong role in managing public lands that hold sacred and cultural significance.
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialRead more on the lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management for it's highway project through Gate Canyon which would destroy cultural sites for the sake of more oil trucks: www.abc4.com/news/norther...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialGreat article on what to expect when visiting Grand Staircase-Escalante from our friends at @protectparks.bsky.social:
www.npca.org/articles/115...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialToday the Nine Mile Canyon Coalition, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and @biologicaldiversity.org sued the Trump administration’s BLM for approving construction of a highway through Utah’s scenic, culturally and historically significant Gate Canyon.
Read more:
suwa.org/lawsuit-targ...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialValar Atomics wants to build a data center powered by nuclear energy, on Bureau of Land Management land near Price, Utah.
Read more here: www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialThank you @lujan.senate.gov ov for standing up and speaking out for national monuments in Utah.
Read it now: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialAn informative read from @highcountrynews.org:
www.hcn.org/articles/how...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialFrom 2018-2021 (during the previous, illegal reduction) there were a total of 20 mining claims filed in the lands cut from Bears Ears National Monument. Today (two weeks after the mineral withdrawal was lifted), 72 claims have been filed.
For more info, visit: suwa.org/in-less-than...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialSeptember's Redrock Report!
👨⚖️ SUWA Files Lawsuit, Mining Claims Begin as Backlash Grows Over Attack on National Monuments
📣 Deadline Alert: Submit Your Comments in Support of Quiet, Roadless Forests!
🌹 Support Continues to Grow for ARRWA
📰 What We’ve Been Reading
Read more:
suwa.org/september-20...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialSince our press release last Wednesday, Kimmerle Mining has filed 7 additional mining claims near Natural Bridges National Monument—the first International Dark Sky Park.
This brings the total mining claims to 23 in lands cut from Bears Ears National Monument.
Learn more:
suwa.org/first-mining...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialFrom @sltrib.com on the recent mining claims in Bears Ears National Monument. SUWA Legal Director, Steve Bloch, is quoted.
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialSen. Lee has moved forward with a process that could overturn the Bears Ears Monument Management Plan, a plan developed through years of Tribal and federal collaboration to guide how the landscape is protected and managed.
For more info, visit: suwa.org/senator-lee-...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialThe Forest Service is rewriting the Travel Management Rule, which determines where ORVs can travel across national forests.
❗COMMENT NOW: suwa.quorum.us/campaign/169... ❗
There are already hundreds of thousands of miles of Forest Service roads nationwide, facing a $9 billion maintenance backlog.
@protectwildutah.bsky.social16 new mining claims have been filed on previously protected land in Bears Ears National Monument. These lands became subject to mining claims on Friday, September 11th—60 days after President Trump decimated Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
More info here:
suwa.org/first-mining...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialInformative article on Bears Ears and the Antiquities Act from @durangoherald.bsky.social:
www.durangoherald.com/articles/col...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialThe Trump administration continues its attacks on public lands in its latest push to rescind the Roadless Rule, one of the country’s most important legal safeguards for undeveloped national forests. 🌲
✍ Tell the Forest Service to protect our nation’s wild forests! suwa.quorum.us/campaign/169...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialRecent polling shows Utah voters overwhelmingly support restoring protections to all of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
See the results here: bit.ly/UtahMonument...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialBack in June, we asked you to submit comments on an oil and gas lease sale in wild Utah. The BLM is now barreling ahead with this sale and accepting comments on the draft proposal.
🚨 Please urge the BLM to keep fossil fuel development out of wild Utah! 🚨 suwa.quorum.us/campaign/169...
@protectwildutah.bsky.socialNew polling shows, once again, majority of Utahns do not support the shrinkage of national monuments.
Read more from @sltrib.com: www.sltrib.com/news/environ...