Desert Tortoise Council Testimony Opposing S3297
Desert Tortoise Council – Oppose S 3297 – 8-12-2018 Letter
St. George City Resolution Supporting Northern Corridor
Protect the Red Cliffs NCA from an unnecessary and destructive highway Washington County wants the City of St. George, and other municipalities in the county, to pass resolutions supporting a Congressional bill to allow a highway through prime tortoise habitat in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area/Desert Reserve. This bill is being sold as a way…
DetailsThe HCP ZONE 6 and proposed Highway
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…
DetailsShared Values On Public Lands
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…
DetailsOwnership and Control of Public Lands
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…
DetailsUtah versus Public Lands
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…
DetailsRestoring Desert Tortoise Habitat
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,…
DetailsJuly 12 2017 CSU-DWRe Meeting Notes – Question Answers and Follow-up
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…
DetailsComparison of Per Capita Water Use in Southwestern Counties
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…
DetailsClarke-Vickers Letter – invitation to dialog
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…
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