Transform your recreation into stewardship! Across Utah’s public lands there is a pressing need to ensure that negligent and willfully destructive/illegal activities do not exacerbate other threats to proposed and designated wilderness. Under the present administration, we have witnessed a rise in blatant or thinly concealed efforts to undermine the integrity of wild places. This, […]

The Land The lands contained within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument provide an "outstanding biological resource, spanning five life-zones - from low-lying desert to coniferous forest. Deep within this vast and austere landscape, the Anasazi and Fremont cultures made contact in the period AD 950-1100, leaving behind rock art panels, occupation sites, campsites and granaries. Stepping further […]

The Land The Deep Creek Mountains, officially the Deep Creek Range (Goshute: Pi'a-roi-ya-bi), are a mountain range in the Great Basin located in extreme western Tooele County and Juab County, Utah, in the western United States. The range trends north-south, 84% in Utah and 16% in Nevada, and is mainly composed of granite. Multiple canyons feature perennial […]

The Land Adjacent to the southeast boundary of Zion National Park, Canaan Mountain Wilderness is comprised of approximately 44,500 acres of public land in Washington County. In this wilderness, an 8-by-10 mile block of Navajo Sandstone, bounded by 2,000-foot-high cliffs, has been sculpted by wind and water over time into a landscape of soaring cliff […]

  The Work We will be building and installing buck and rail fencing at the mouth of (2) canyons, each of which contain vulnerable natural springs, to ensure prevention of motorized travel into these areas and resultant impacts on the ecological health of the landscape. Work tasks will vary by need, and are slated to […]

The Land The Westwater Canyon WSA spans the Westwater Canyon portion of the Colorado River with the eastern two-thirds of these protected lands located in the Dolores Triangle. Major tributary canyons on the east side of the river include Little Dolores, Marble, and Star canyons. A short box canyon, Little Hole, and a rincon (Big […]

Join our crew a weekend honoring National Public Lands Day with SUWA and the US Forest Service in the La Sal Mountains! Details to follow.

Details Forthcoming!

Project details forthcoming. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our program coordinator: volunteer@suwa.org  or  (435) 259-9151.

The Land Utah's West Desert is a remote, sprawling collection of magnificent landscapes containing a series of distinctive "island" ranges including the Deep Creek Mountains, the House Range, the Wah-Wahs, Notch Peak, and more. Spanning several counties and hundreds of miles of remote roads, many of the regions spectacular features are protected as wilderness study areas […]

The Land Culminating in Labyrinth Canyon, Ten Mile Canyon is the point of connection between the webbing of slickrock drainages feeding into the Green River. Containing innumerable cultural and natural resources - from bighorn sheep breeding grounds to ancient middens littered with desiccated corn cobs and pottery shards - Ten Mile Canyon is also selectively open […]

This is a private project for students from the University of Wisconsin. Please refer to our 2020 Project Calendar for additional stewardship opportunities!