Here is some information on the new proposed bill and the Habitat Conservation Plan: OPEN HOUSE  St George to present Desert Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan Expansion Act. HCP-Resolution-in-Support-of-Tortoise-Expansion-Bill-2018 pdf Stewart Legislation HR 2423 PDF to allow a highway across the NCA Hatch Bill S1053 PDF to scrap BLM’s RMP and start over because it don’t allow… Read more »

Conservation Forum Talk by David Jenkins September 21, 2017   I’ve been a conservative for as long as I can remember. Even as a 13 year-old—way back in 1976—I favored Ronald Reagan over Gerald Ford. I remember staying up past my bedtime to watch the primary results come in. After that, I did volunteer work… Read more »

The ownership and control of the nation’s public land, especially in the western United States, has been debated for many years. That debate has grown more intense since 2012 when the Utah legislature passed the Transfer of Public Lands Act and Related Study (TPLA), which demanded that most of the public land within Utah’s borders… Read more »

Conserve Southwest Utah (CSU) questions the validity of the Transfer of Public Lands Act (TPLA). TPLA demands that the United States give title to 30 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands and the energy resources they contain to the State of Utah by December 31, 2014. The bill is… Read more »

Restoring Desert Tortoise Habitat By Tim O’Brien   Biologists are testing new methods to rehabilitate Mojave Desert Tortoise habitat in the Red Cliffs and Beaver Dam National Conservation Areas. Over 25% of the tortoise habitat in Red Cliffs and large sections of the Beaver Dam Wash NCA were devastated by fires in 2005 and 2006,… Read more »

1.     The Utah Board of Water Resources (UBWR) responded to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) request for supplemental information on the Lake Powell Pipeline Project on August 11, 2017. Click the link below to continue reading… FERC- UDWR response 10-17-17 2.     The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future Bradley… Read more »

This paper presents a view into per capita water use (Gallons per Capita Daily – GPCD) in several counties in the southwestern United States. The work is built on data collected from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and matched with U.S. Census population data. First a straight GPCD comparison is presented, then with adjustments… Read more »

Dear Mr. Clarke and Sen. Vickers, Thank you for submitting the referenced Op-Eds describing the reasons you think the monument designation should be changed. We invite you to engage in a respectful discussion about the issues you raised. We are a group of ordinary citizens in southwest Utah that formed 11 years ago in response… Read more »

This document contains a collection of suggested comments to Utah Water Strategy from Conserve Southwest Utah. Here is an example: Section and Page: Section 2.4 on Regional and Interstate Rivers, page 30-31 Comment: This section includes a sales pitch on two expensive, controversial projects: the Lake Powell Pipeline and the Bear River Project. While it… Read more »

1. HR 2423 undermines the legislative provisions in public law 111-11, also known as the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (Lands Bill), which established the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (NCA) to protect tortoise habitat and sensitive ecosystem in Washington County, Utah.  The proposed bill designates a four-lane highway through the NCA, circumventing all… Read more »