Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Field Journal
Last January, our Stewardship Program entered its tenth year of projects and programming with a hearty dinner celebration. No tributes or fanfare; we simply gathered to look back (and across the table) for the inspiration we all needed in that moment as we prepared for the year ahead. It...
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A midseason Stewardship update With the 2024 Stewardship season in full swing, take these snapshots from the spring, during which we conducted twelve volunteer projects across more than fifteen proposed wilderness units, as indicative of our work. Talitha McGuire shares a fine-tuned description of what Stewardship Crew staff see and...
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As of writing, it is mid-November 2022 and our program is once again out in the field, Jack at the helm, guiding a contingent of late season stewards as they reinforce boundary barriers in the Canaan Mountain Wilderness. With this effort in the rearview, we will wrap our seventh season....
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Since its inception a few years back, SUWA’s Stewardship Program has aimed to foster a stewardship ethic and promote service as recreation in Utah through opportunities to work directly and actively to preserve and enhance the wilderness character of Utah’s public lands. So what does all of that mean– for...
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Over the past half-decade, our nearly 1,000 stewardship volunteers have dedicated over 11,500 hours of direct service on Utah’s public lands. If we include the travel time our volunteers have invested reaching our far-flung worksites, this number nearly doubles. No other hands-on conservation program in Utah measures up. And none...
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