SUWA Launches Media Campaign to Highlight Costs of Utah’s Land Seizure

In 2012 the Utah legislature passed a bill demanding that the federal government turn over almost all public land in the state by the end of this year.

With that deadline less than a month away, SUWA has launched a new statewide television, radio and web campaign to educate Utahns about the cost of Utah’s land grab – and how all Americans would lose our redrock heritage while private interests gain.

Click here to help stop Utah’s land grab once and for all.

Under Utah’s land grab scheme, the future of places like Greater Canyonlands, the San Rafael Swell and Cedar Mesa would be controlled by Utah politicians who favor development over conservation.

While the state’s effort will likely be found unconstitutional in the courts, we need to expose this for what it is: completely wrongheaded public policy — and we need to stop it now because it creates a political environment that makes it harder to protect Utah’s wild lands for all Americans.

Please contribute today to help stop Utah’s land grab.

Just today a team of economists from three Utah universities, hired by the legislature, released a report that shows that if Utah were to take public lands from the federal government it would have to privatize them or pursue heavy development in order to pay for their management.

This is a terrible idea that needs to be stopped now. Imagine the Book Cliffs strip-mined for tar sands; Arches National Park ringed with oil and gas wells; and a giant coal mine in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This is what some Utah politicians want to see happen.

Click here to stop Utah politicians from seizing America’s redrock wilderness.
Your contribution today will help us stop Utah’s land grab, and protect Utah’s redrock wilderness, now and forever.

(Click here to learn more about the economic report released today.)