An unusual agenda item occupied part of the Tuesday, Feb. 4, meeting of the Grand County Council: altering the structure of the meetings themselves to ensure every citizen who wishes can be heard…
The Moab City Council unanimously approved a resolution formally opposing the inclusion of two parcels in the Bureau of Land Management’s oil and gas lease sale. Those parcels are within the Sand Flats…
Most important for a healthy lifestyle is good, safe water. We need it to drink, cook, farm and bathe. Nothing is more important. Yet this is the very thing being jeopardized by the…
Dear Moab Sun News and Grand County residents, Last week, we began to experience the effects of Trumpycology. That is correct, the Don’s environmental policies have come home to roost in Grand County….
I am disturbed by the news that the BLM plans to offer oil and gas leases in the Sand Flats Recreation Area. Didn’t we recently celebrate the creation of the Slickrock Trail? Isn’t…
We here in Moab receive less than nine-and-a-half inches of precipitation a year. The overwhelming majority of water for the entire Spanish Valley area comes from a watershed that occupies just 2% of…
The Utah office of the Bureau of Land Management is in the planning stages of a statewide oil and gas lease sale in June. According to the sale’s BLM e-planning website, there are…
“The Bureau of Land Management is a big deal in Moab,” John Weisheit said. “We are surrounded by public lands; we live here because of public lands; our livelihood is tied up in…
Enjoy a free day floating the Colorado River while helping to remove trash from its water and shores during the Colorado River “Daily” Clean-up on Saturday, Sept. 7. The annual project is led…
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced the proposed plan for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah in a press release this week. “These plans are the result of deliberate and…
