Interior Ken Salazar. On November 4, 2013, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) failed to minimize the impacts of motorized use on the land and its resources and to inventory archaeological sites when the BLM issued its Richfield Resource Management Plan in 2008. The Richfield plan covers 2.1 million acres in Sevier, Garfield, Wayne and Piute counties. On April 10, 2018, Utah state judge Lyle Anderson ruled to dismiss SUWA's complaint in SUWA vs. San Juan County Commission. The judge went further, questioning the propriety of SUWA's filing as a mechanism of “intimidation” directed at San Juan County Commission or others, and were directed to file a memorandum addressing this with the Court by May 1. SUWA appealed Judge Anderson's ruling to the Utah Supreme Court, with the Society of Professional Journalists and Utah news outlets KSTU (Fox13) and The Deseret News filing friend of the court briefs in support of SUWA's appeal, arguing that punishing SUWA for bringing the suit sets a dangerous precedent for the ability of Utahns to challenge local government. SUWA played a key role in the passage of the Emery County Public Land Management Act, which was signed into law by then-U.S. president Trump as part of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act on March 12, 2019. SUWA had worked to improve earlier versions of the bill that had failed to protect parts of Labyrinth Canyon and Muddy Creek. Following a deal between Senator Dick Durbin and Senator Orrin Hatch, the bill ultimately protected 663,000 acres of wilderness in Utah, making it the largest wilderness bill passed in the United States in a decade. References External links SUWA website America's Red Rock Wilderness Act Environmental organizations based in Utah 1983 establishments in Utah