Showing posts with label Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Show all posts
December 4, 2017

Trump shrinks Utah monuments created by Obama, Clinton

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Vice President Al Gore applauds after President Bill Clinton signs a bill designating about 1.7 million acres of land in southern Utah...
February 3, 2017

Utah Legislature votes to shed Bears Ears monument designation

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By Amy Joi O'Donoghue Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — An indignant Utah Senate voted 22-6 Friday to urge the unraveling of the Bears ...
September 30, 2014

Judges seem skeptical of U.S. in high-stakes Utah road dispute

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  PUBLIC LANDS Kane County, Utah, R.S.2477 road claims. Phil Taylor E&E / Greenwire DENVER -- A federal appeals court yesterd...
August 19, 2014

Westerners fear monumental land grab by Obama administration

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By Kelly David Burke FoxNews.com U tah officials are scrambling to prevent the Obama administration from locking down thousands of acres...
November 14, 2013

Time to throw the Antiquities Act into the recycling bin of history

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Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, Utah OPINION By RON ARNOLD The Examiner T wo words — national monument — conjure Image...
November 11, 2013

Interior secretary says Obama may bypass Congress on monuments

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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she may advise Obama to act alone to create new national monuments if Congress doesn't act. Interi...
November 1, 2013

BLM renews Grand Staircase grazing study

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After 12-year hiatus, BLM set to restart an environmental analysis — and feud between environmentalists, ranchers Map of Grand Staircase-...
September 16, 2013

Learning to bend: Settling Utah's road wars

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BOOK REVIEW By Ed Marston High Country News Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country Jedediah S. Rogers 242 pages, hardcov...
June 5, 2012

RS 2477 fight is important

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One of the state's RS 2477 claims in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. (SUWA) Editorial The Richfield Reaper The fight over...
September 1, 2010

Kane County Wins First RS 2477 Road

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by Morgan Skinner KCSG News Kcsg Television (L-R) Kane County Commissioners Mark Habbeshaw, Daniel Hulet, Doug Heaton with State Represen...
March 29, 2010

Governor approves use of eminent domain to take federal land

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Brock Vergakis The Associated Press Salt Lake Tribune Fed up with federal ownership of more than half the land in Utah, Republican Go...
March 3, 2010

In Utah, a move to seize federal land

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The state House passes a bill allowing the use of eminent domain to take protected land from the federal government. Utah wants to develop a...
March 2, 2010

White House land grab

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Proposal to seize land would favor animals over Americans By Sen. Jim DeMint Washington Times Y ou'd think the Obama administrati...
February 19, 2010

In the West, Opposition to New National Monuments

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Representative Rob Bishop said he had uncovered this "secret" list of possible monuments. By KIRK JOHNSON New York Times DENVE...
February 18, 2010

Obama Eyes Western Land for National Monuments, Angering Some

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The Otero Mesa, a large desert grassland in New Mexico. (AP) By William La Jeunesse FOX News More than a dozen pristine landscapes, wild...
April 17, 2009

Call off the fight

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Counties should accept court ruling EDITORIAL Salt Lake Tribune I t's time for Kane and Garfield counties to quit wasting Utah taxpayers...
April 13, 2009

Court denies Utah counties' monument road claims

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Counties sued over water rights and road access By Patty Henetz The Salt Lake Tribune K ane and Garfield have lost another round in their ye...
March 1, 2009

Future of long-sought Utah lands bills in question

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By Lee Davidson Deseret News W hen the Senate convened this year, it quickly passed a much-ballyhooed package of hundreds of public lands bi...