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Latest news from USAC. We Did it!! Legislative Update Last Friday was a win for stream access in Utah. Over 400 people showed up at the Capitol steps to support our cause. Objective number one was accomplished: HB 68 was withdrawn from consideration by the Legislature. It was your calls, your emails and letters, and [...]

Last Friday was the rally at the State Capitol opposing HB68.  We met up on the Capitol steps at 10am.  We were able to listen to representatives from USAC as well as Rep. Dixon M. Pitcher which is helping USAC draft a bill to combat HB68.  This bill I have heard will reflect language that has been adopted [...]

The 2013 legislative session starts TODAY! It is URGENT that we all contact our Representatives right NOW to   OPPOSE HB68!! The assault on public stream access has already begun behind closed doors! House Bill 68 [HB68] WILL lock down Utah’s public waters to private interests. TODAY is the time to make a final stand. [...]

Yesterday afternoon we got word from the Utah Stream Access Coalition that the Utah Court made a key ruling in favor of public access to Utah Streams.  We have been waiting a couple months for this ruling and we are ecstatic it was leaning in our favor.  I have read a few different articles on the [...]

I hope this year we can make some serious progress in the war we are in for our water rights.  I always keep tabs on the USAC and what they are doing because they are such a vital part in our battle.  The USAC has already done so much for not only fly fisherman but [...]

There is really no way we can all give the necessary recognition and appreciation to the Utah Stream Access Coalition for all they have done.  Please remember the Concert to benefit the Utah Stream Access Coalition (USAC) coming up on October 5th.  Even though the USAC is making great progress we need to keep supporting the fight.   This news was [...]

We as a fly fishing, fishing and water using people need to step it up! While I attended the Fly Fishing Film Tour last week Steve Schmidt from Western Rivers Flyfisher stood up to let us know we haven’t done enough, in regards to money donations, to help fund this cause. There is a law [...]

We have followed this for the last year and now The Utah Stream Access Coalition has filed a lawsuit against a controversial water bill that was passed earlier this year.  Below is the article about this also a link to The Utah Stream Access Coalition’s Facebook page.  Please check out the Facebook page and get [...]

information taken from http://utahwaterguardians.org/ A sad day for Utah’s fisherman, Representative McIff’s unconstitutional House-bill somehow passes the Senate. In an odd twist of events, the 2nd substitute HB-141 was passed with a 19-10 vote late in the day.  The 2nd substitute HB-141 was made public only 3 hours before the vote…. in a nut shell, [...]

So I got to the office this morning and started into my morning ritual of checking all the RSS feeds that I subscribe too and saw this  news on a few of them.  Kind of felt like a freaking punch in the face after the excitement from Tuesdays news. Taken from utahwaterguardians.wordpress.com HB 187 is [...]