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The Wilderness Act, passed in 1964, gave Congress the authority to designate wilderness areas. It led to the establishment of many popular outdoor recreation areas, including the Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness, and Flat Tops Wilderness, where the idea first began.
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Zone 6 is a popular recreation spot and desert tortoise habitat that was protected as part of the deal to build a highway near St. George. Local leaders and the state now say if the highway doesn’t happen, the land is open for business.
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The lawsuit follows a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision in February to reject conservationists’ requests to restore endangered species protections across the region.
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Over 2.7 million acres surrounding Great Salt Lake have been designated as a sentinel landscape by the federal government for its importance to national defense and conservation.
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Researchers say this could be implemented in the next 10 years, but concentrations of those elements still need to be determined
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The move follows calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environmental land.
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The Biden administration is moving to let conservationists lease government land for restoration. It's part of an effort to make conservation an “equal” to other uses of public lands such as drilling and livestock grazing.
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The Trust for Public Land estimates that 3,000 privately held acres are scattered around Utah’s Zion National Park.
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Utah will soon find out if it’s the host for the 2034 Winter Olympics, which could put pressure on the state to fix what ails the Great Salt Lake.
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There are dozens of conservation groups across the Mountain West working to protect the waters, lands and wildlife that make up the region. That includes a nonprofit in Nevada that is helping preserve an important tree species that’s increasingly threatened by climate change.
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The Natural History Museum of Utah is leading out on a new, positive approach to talking about climate change.
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Changing climate patterns and growing populations are having an impact on all of our lives, but it is also affecting birds and their migration patterns.