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Advocates concerned about Southern Utah road extension
JOAN MEINERS, The Spectrum
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1of3In this March 28, 2021, photo, Tom Butine, board president of Conserve Southwest Utah, looks over land along the Southern Parkway near Sand Hollow Reservoir in Washington County, Utah, where developers seek to extend the Long Valley Road into desert tortoise habitat to accommodate a new subdivision. (Joan Meiners/The Spectrum via AP)Joan Meiners/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3In this March 28, 2021, photo, a D.R Horton s developer s sign is posted at the existing exit for Long Valley Road showing plans for a new 2,100 single family homes and townhomes subdivision along the Southern Parkway near Sand Hollow Reservoir in Washington County, Utah. Conservationists are fighting plans to extend Long Valley Road south into desert tortoise habitat to provide a second entrance to the subdivision. (Joan Meiners/The Spectrum via AP)Joan Meiners/APShow MoreShow Less
Border crisis and environmental crisis
Posted : 2021-04-25 16:45 By Joe Guzzardi
Responding to the consequences of President Biden s wildly out-of-control border mess, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sued the administration in the U.S. District Court of Arizona.
At issue is Biden s unilateral decision to stop border wall construction, and to end the policy which requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their petitions are reviewed. The wall and Mexican Migration Protocols are among former President Trump s signature immigration accomplishments, and helped to slow population growth in Arizona and other states.
Biden s irresponsible, illegal border permissiveness violates the National Environmental Policy Act, which recognizes that population directly affects the environment. Today, 90 percent of that growth is caused by immigration. The act requires that every agency considering an action that will affect the environment must analyze and publicize those outcome
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and President Joe Biden must not allow the Northern Corridor Highway (NCH) to cut across Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) in southwestern Utah.
Let’s make one thing clear: the NCH is not “essential,” as Washington County officials have declared. The county’s population is growing, and traffic congestion is indeed a problem, but there are much better ways to alleviate it than building a four-lane highway through a beloved and federally protected NCA.
Red Cliffs Desert Reserve was established in 1996 to protect the threatened Mojave Desert Tortoise, as well as for the area’s Native American cultural heritage, beautiful red rock scenery, and recreation opportunities. The Reserve (75% of which was enhanced by Congress in 2009 to become an NCA) is a major quality of life perk for St. George and other gateway communities, plus a prime tourism draw. Washington County administers the Reserve in coordination with federal and state agencie
For Immediate Release, April 23, 2021
Contact:
Adam Rissien, WildEarth Guardians, (406) 370-3147, arissien@wildearthguardians.org
Michael Garrity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (406) 459-5936, wildrockies@gmail.com
Dr. Sara Jane Johnson, Native Ecosystems Council, (406) 579-3286, sjjohnsonkoa@yahoo.com
Forest Service’s Huge Clearcutting Plan Next to Yellowstone National Park Threatens Grizzlies, Lynx
WEST YELLOWSTONE
, Mont. Four conservation groups today challenged a U.S. Forest Service plan to clearcut more than 4,600 acres of pine forests, log across an additional 9,000 acres, and bulldoze up to 56 miles of road on lands just outside Yellowstone National Park within the Custer Gallatin National Forest.
The Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council said the South Plateau project will destroy habitat for grizzly bears, lynx, pine marten and wolverine. The logging project wil