SUWA: 'Help Stop Vegetation Devastation'

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is calling on its members to ask the BLM "to end plans for vegetation treatment on over 50,000 acres of land in southwestern Utah, including the Timber Mountain area in the western part of the [Grand Staircase-Escalante National] Monument, and the Upper Kanab Creek area -- two pristine areas proposed for wilderness in America's Red Rock Wilderness Act." Says SUWA Field Attorney Tiffany Bartz: "Even though the BLM claims it needs to 'rehabilitate' the vegetation on these lands, it fails to take into account the negative impacts from soil and vegetation disturbance in the face of long-term drought and climate change, and the benefits conferred by the ability of pinyon-juniper ecosystems to capture carbon and offset some of the effects brought about by climate change." For more info, click here.