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As we near the last days of our year-end fundraisi

As we near the last days of our year-end fundraising drive, I want to shine a spotlight on a team at SUWA whose impact is felt nationwide: our Grassroots Organizing team.

This small but mighty team is the reason a regional conservation nonprofit has a presence across the entire country. Our organizers mobilize thousands of supporters and ensure that decision-makers hear—loud and clear—that people across the nation care deeply about protecting Utah’s redrock landscapes. As a result, lawmakers in every state hear from their own constituents when these federal lands are under attack.

With the support of people like you, SUWA’s grassroots organizers work tirelessly to educate activists and help generate tens of thousands of public comments on critical issues from public land sell-off attempts, to the protection and management of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monuments, to building broad congressional support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act—legislation backed by 60 representatives and 19 senators in 2025.

Grassroots organizing touches every aspect of SUWA’s mission. It is how we turn public concern into political pressure—and how we win protection for places that Utah’s own leaders would otherwise sacrifice for the benefit of private interests.

Please make a gift to our year-end fundraising drive to help support grassroots organizing and the broader movement to Protect Wild Utah! Link in bio.

Our Stewardship Program is a vital part of SUWA’s

Our Stewardship Program is a vital part of SUWA’s work to ensure that public lands in Utah remain wild. Established in 2016, this volunteer-powered program serves as a critical bridge between the policy victories we secure and real, lasting protection of these places on the ground.

Please consider making a gift to our year-end fundraising drive and help SUWA continue showing up in the field! Link in bio.

The work of our Stewardship crews is essential to maintaining wilderness character across a wide range of public lands in Utah and ensuring that hard-won conservation victories have real-world follow-through. Each work site is also a classroom—pairing active land care with shared knowledge about how to steward wilderness responsibly.

Land stewardship is, at its core, a collaborative effort. This work depends on strong partnerships between our Stewardship team, land management agencies, community volunteers, and supporters like you—each playing a role in caring for these places over time.

As we’re reminded again and again, meaningful protection doesn’t happen overnight—it unfolds across generations. We’re grateful to be building on the commitment of those who came before us, and equally grateful to stand alongside you as we carry that responsibility forward. #protectwildutah

𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵: 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘋𝘺𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘢

Though our tenth year of stewardship has come to a

Though our tenth year of stewardship has come to a close, SUWA’s Stewardship team is as busy as ever, meeting with agency staff across the redrock.

This year, our Stewardship Program facilitated 23 projects for 215 volunteers over 74 project days. When the government shutdown hit, our staff quickly pivoted, remaining on the ground throughout the fall to review recent work sites and develop proposals for future projects. Despite the political setbacks, we brought more volunteers out on the land this year than last.

Our team is now focused on creating what we hope will be one of the highlights of your year in 2026. Come late winter, we’ll release our spring/early summer 2026 Stewardship Project Calendar. Keep an eye out! 👀

To check out our year-end wrap-up and learn more about the Stewardship Program’s accomplishments over the past decade, visit the link in our bio.

Today, the Brian Head Land Conveyance Act (S. 1860

Today, the Brian Head Land Conveyance Act (S. 1860) moved through the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and is now eligible for a vote in the full Senate. This legislation, sponsored by Senator Mike Lee, would give away—at no cost—24 acres of public land within the Dixie National Forest to the town of Brian Head.

As the bill is currently written, it establishes only vague standards for how the town of Brian Head can use the federal land and there is no effective mechanism to enforce those limits. The bill contains a clause that would make it extremely difficult for the U.S. Forest Service to recover the land should the town of Brian Head fail to use the land as described in the bill.

For more info, read our full statement linked in bio.

Why does SUWA maintain a permanent presence in Was

Why does SUWA maintain a permanent presence in Washington, DC? Because the redrock wilderness is federal public land—and the most consequential decisions about its future are made there. Being on the ground in DC allows our staff to lobby members of Congress, meet directly with administration officials, attend hearings, track legislative maneuvering, and push back in real time when bad ideas threaten how these landscapes are managed.

Unfortunately, this year has been especially brutal for public lands with congressional attacks ranging from the unprecedented sell-off proposals, efforts to rollback land management plans, bills expanding motorized vehicle use in protected areas, and harmful provisions buried in the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”.

In the meantime, the Trump administration has moved to hollow out the Bureau of Land Management and other land management agencies through budget cuts, hiring freezes, and catastrophic staffing shortages—while Congress has largely stood by.

If you’re able, please support SUWA’s work in DC with a year-end gift today! Link in bio.

𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵: 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦

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