Wasatch Environmental Updates

Wasatch Environmental Update for March 15, 2020 By John Worlock Preserving Biodiversity –  “30% by 2030” What’s going on with our precious planet home, the Earth?  Sit down, and let’s talk. You are aware of the existential threat of a changing climate, driven by the warming and acidifying effects of…

Wasatch Environmental Update for March 01, 2020 By John Worlock Utah Legislative Alert! It’s late February, the time of the year for the scary Utah Legislature to be in session.  It’s scary, because the Legislature is prone to pass some really bad bills. One of their recent forays into the…

Wasatch Environmental Update for February 16, 2020 By John Worlock Celebrating Wilderness – The Lone Peak Wilderness Party – 2020          In these days of burgeoning population, Wilderness is no longer just a wild place with no human inhabitants.   A Wilderness Area must be so designated by an act of…

Wasatch Environmental Update for Decemeber 29, 2019     By John Worlock Holiday Ideas as a New Decade Begins               Happy Holidays!              We’d like to make a couple of suggestions for how to use your holiday-time as a new decade begins.             First of all, renew…

Wasatch Environmental Update for December 15, 2019 By John Worlock Comments for Little Cottonwood EIS in 2019 Here are some words from those preparing the Environmental Impact Statement for traffic in Little Cottonwood Canyon: “The purpose of the EIS is not to increase or decrease the number of people in…

Wasatch Environmental Update for December 8, 2019 By John Worlock The National Environmental Policy Act at 50 When we celebrate the New Year this year on January First, we will also be celebrating the 50th anniversary of The National Environmental Policy Act, popularly known as NEPA.  It was signed by…

Wasatch Environmental Update for November 17, 2019 By John Worlock Time Out for Some Fun and Education We are living in a time of mulltiple assaults on our landscapes. We’ve seen removal of protection for areas within Bears Ears and Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monuments. We see the state-sponsored…

By John Worlock “Above and Beyond the Wasatch”             For close to half a century, our organization, Save Our Canyons has focused its attention to the Wasatch Range, and more specifically, the Central Wasatch, and even more specifically, the special canyons that have given citizens of Salt Lake City and the…

Wasatch Environmental Update for July 21, 2019 By John Worlock Here is a good question:  “What’s with the Utah Inland Port?”  Since there are a variety of answers, two weeks ago I attended some informative sessions hosted by Envision Utah, who are organizing surveys to figure out what the people…

By John Worlock, Member of Save Our Canyons   Monday, April 22 will be the 49th Anniversary of Earth Day, and we hope you have some plans for that celebration.  My personal plan is to take a lawn chair and perhaps an umbrella and go sit where I can listen…

  By John Worlock, Member of Save Our Canyons We have an important opportunity, for the next few weeks, to help the Utah Department of Transportation as they prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for what they call the Little Cottonwood Canyon Project.  Until May 3rd, we are invited to comment…

By John Worlock, Member of Save Our Canyons For a few weeks we’ve been celebrating the passage of the Natural Resources Management Act of 2019, and we expect to be celebrating its provisions for many years to come.  It is probably the most important environmental legislation in half a century.…