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The Trump admin blocked nearly $2M for projects at Utah’s national parks. Here’s what won’t get done. (opens the original)
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Conservation groups planned to help Utah’s national parks with major projects next year, ranging from surveys of newly exposed shorelines around Lake Powell to whittling down the backlog of historical preservation needs at Capitol Reef National Park. The Interior Department blocked those efforts and several others last month, though, withholding $1.7 million in funding agreements with organizations that support research, visitor experience and resource protection at lands managed by the National
Trump’s move to slash Utah national monuments sparks lawsuits from Patagonia and environmental groups (opens the original)
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Outdoor retail giant Patagonia along with environmental and tribal groups filed lawsuits on Wednesday, Sept. 2, challenging President Donald Trump’s move to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. The lawsuits, filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., seek to reactivate cases initially filed in 2017 when Trump previously reduced the size of the two monuments. The new filings challenge both Trump’s 2017 and 2026 proclamations. After Trump shrunk the monume
The Trump admin finalized a short-term Colorado River plan (opens the original)
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The Trump administration won’t force Utah and other Upper Basin states to cut their Colorado River water use over the next two years, but Lower Basin states like California will collectively slash their consumption by over 1 million acre-feet per year. The Bureau of Reclamation on Aug. 21 released its two-year operating plan that details how the agency will manage the Colorado River and the nation’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead. It also released a record of decision to final
‘Pain and suffering’: What the feds’ Lake Powell proposal means for Utah and other Colorado River states (opens the original)
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After years of analysis and stalled negotiations, the federal government last month finally laid out its proposal for managing the Colorado River’s biggest reservoirs for the next decade. The Bureau of Reclamation still needs to release its final decision and an operating plan for the next two years. But its final environmental impact statement provides a framework for how it intends to manage parts of the Colorado River system under its control. The new plan would mean changes in how much water
Trump administration allows smaller water releases from Lake Powell under new Colorado River plan (opens the original)
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The federal government lowers the amount of water it may annually release from Lake Powell, sets a target for water conservation in Utah and other Upper Basin states, and arranges to store up to 3 million acre-feet of conserved water in Powell for future use, under a framework released Friday for how to operate the Colorado River system. Current guidelines for operating the river system during dry times, which expire this year, said the Bureau of Reclamation would release no less than 6 million
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