For Immediate Release, January 14, 2021 Contact: Sarah Thomas, Conserve Southwest Utah, (435) 590-8172, sarah@conserveswu.org Randi Spivak, Center for Biological Diversity, (310) 779-4894, rspivak@biologicaldiversity.org Trump Administration Flouts Law to Push Utah Highway Through Protected Conservation Lands ST. GEORGE, Utah— The Trump administration issued a decision today to allow construction of the Northern Corridor Highway, a controversial four-lane highway through the protected Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in southwest Utah. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also issued a “take” permit today allowing destruction of Mojave desert tortoises in the path of the highway project and reducing protections elsewhere. Desert tortoises are protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.