Media
We periodically post links to news stories or news videos that feature Wild Utah Project and our work.
Check out Wild Utah Project's amazing sage-grouse lek video on You Tube!
Letter to Editor from Allison Jones, Salt Lake Tribune. $300,000 for nothing. (explaining that how now that wolves will be de-listed, the state should not give the $300.000 to Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife appropriated by the Legislature this winter. May 02, 2013
Salt Lake Tribune "short take" on what the Tribune thinks of the Utah's new sage-grouse plan. A flawed plan. April 28, 2013
News Story. Salt Lake Tribune Utah governor pitches plan to protect sage grouse (and WUP explains why its not a very good plan). April 25, 2013.
Radio Piece. KUER. Utah Finalizes Sage Grouse Plan. April 24, 2013
The month of March featured so much press on the public outcry over the Utah legislature's $300,000 appropriation of general funds to Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife (to lobby in Washington DC against "wolf reintroduction to Utah"), that we had to make a whole separate media page for it. CLICK here to read the frenzy
Radio piece. KUER. Some Utah lawmakers ask to delay sage grouse designation. March 05, 2013. Click here to listen to story.
Radio piece. Utah Public radio. Feature Story on conserving Gunnison, and greater Sage-grouse in Utah. February 08, 2013. Click here to download mp3 file.
News Story. Vernal Express. Groups urge best science in sage-grouse issue. January 30, 2013. Click here to read story.
Wild Utah Project Press Release. January 22, 2013. "More than 100 scientists ask Secretary Salazar to apply the best scientific guidance to conserve sage grouse." Click here to see press release
Audio/You Tube of Allison Jones' powerpoint presentation on renewable energy BMPs at the Restoring the West Conference, October 31, 2012. Click here to see and listen to presentation
Radio Interview with Allison Jones, KUER (90.1 FM). Wild Utah Biologist on Utah Sage Grouse Plan. August 30, 2012. Click here to hear interview
News Story. Salt lake Tribune. Grazing’s impact on sage grouse stirs debate. September 02, 2012. Click here to see story
News Story. Salt lake Tribune. Sage grouse plan protects bulk of Utah habitat, but is it enough? August 28, 2012. Click here to see story
Radio Interview with Allison Jones, 'Access Utah" on Utah Public radio. Sage grouse conservation in Utah. July 27, 2012. Click here to hear interview
News Story, Salt Lake Tribune. Grazing plan? Those are fighting words on Grand Staircase. June 26, 2012. Click here to see story.
Editorial by Allison Jones in the Salt Lake Tribune: "Roads disturb wildlife habitat." June 17. 2012. Click here to read the Editorial
Great editorial from the Salt Lake Tribune in response to the article just below this (where Utah Governor's public lands policy director slams other agency science on sage-grouse). May 21, 2012. Click here to see Editorial
News Story, Salt Lake Tribune. The leader of Utah's new sage-grouse working group that is writing a new sage grouse conservation plan for the state said that "Utah needs to come up with some science that is honest and true and refutes federal agency science on sage-grouse. May 17, 2012. Click here to see story
Radio Piece, KUER - public radio of Utah. Feature story on sage grouse and the writing of Utah's new management plan for the species. April 30, 2012. Click here to listen
News Story: Salt lake Tribune, The Tribune is wondering whether the new team put together to rewrite Utah's sage grouse management plan is biased towards industry and away from conservation. March 28, 2012. Click here to see story
News Story: Salt Lake Tribune, State of Utah worried about the tougher federal sage grouse protections featured in the Dec.28 Tribune piece below. CLick here to see story, January 27, 2012
A string of News stories and Op/Ed's: Salt Lake Tribune,
BLM grazing management, Wild Utah Project and the Duck Creek allotment. December 2011 and January 2012.
Click here to see original Dec. 26 Tribune news story
by Brandon Loomis, and click here to see the Tribune's great editorial in response to the Duck Creek story on Jan 02! And oh, there's more! The Utah State Commissioner of Agriculture was so angry at the Tribune's editorial that he responded with an outrageous Op/Ed accusing environmental groups of only bringing lawsuits against the federal government over grazing to get rich, and that life is a bowl of cherries on the LDS church's ranch (Deseret Land & Livestock) in northern Utah because the way they graze up there is so great for all wildlife and the ecosystem. So click here to see our Op/Ed in response to his balony, published January 27, 2012 in the Tribune.
News Story: Salt Lake Tribune,December 28, 2011
Tougher protections for sage grouse. Click here to see story
Video:
News clip on Utah Wildlife Board meeting determining whether to support Congressional legislation that would remove Endangered Species status from Gray wolves. October 25, Fox News. Click here for link to Fox News clip
Editorial:
OP/ED in the Salt Lake Tribune by Allison Jones and Kirk Robinson (Western Wildlife Conservancy), about beetle kill on Utah' s national forests. CLICK HERE TO READ OP/ED. October 01, 2011
