Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
The redrock is particularly lucky to have a large number of articulate and passionate activists dedicated to achieving lasting protections for Utah wilderness. Last week, 20 of those folks (half from Utah and half from across the country) traveled to Washington, DC for Utah Wilderness Week 2011 to ask their...
Read MoreTell Congress to protect America’s redrock wilderness! Dirty Devil proposed wilderness. Photo by Ray Bloxham. Over the past 29 years, there has been one major reason why protection for Utah’s redrock wilderness areas has continued to move forward: YOU. Because of redrock activists like you, over 5 million acres of...
Read MoreThe U.S. House of Representatives is debating an Appropriations bill that could deal huge setbacks to Utah's redrock country.
Read MoreMisconceptions about which activities are and are not allowed in designated wilderness have always been floating around, but with Interior Secretary Salazar’s reversal of the Bush-era “No More Wilderness” policy a few weeks ago, those inaccurate statements have been out in full swing. Earlier this week, I received a Google...
Read MoreOn December 24, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar reversed the Bush-era “No More Wilderness” policy, creating a new “Wild Lands” policy that could potentially protect 6 million acres of wilderness in Utah (see our Associate Director’s note). Please thank Secretary Salazar for the new policy, but let him know that the...
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