Utah Issues
What Can You Do?
Volunteer for a service trip in one of the Utah forests.
Help build the campaign. Contact Tim Peterson, Utah Forest Wilderness Program Director, to learn how.
Check out our Utah Forest Wilderness blog for the latest info on the campaign, including spotlight features on areas that deserve protection.
Social Media Links
Our greatest success has come through working with our partners to raise the profile of national forest lands in Utah’s ongoing wilderness and public lands debate.
When rural counties and the Utah congressional delegation act on land use legislation, they now know they must consider protections for Forest Service lands.
Working with the Utah Environmental Congress, the Sierra Club and others, we have taken two disparate wilderness proposals and merged them into a single unified proposal for the counties that were active on land use legislation. As a result, the new unified proposal is stronger, more robust and better researched.
In 2010 and 2011, counties active on land use legislation included Beaver, Piute, Emery and San Juan. However, most of these counties’ efforts have stalled, largely because of external political forces. We have built a strong coalition of conservationists for forest lands, and when the legislative process gets moving again, we are ready.
On the administrative front, we...
- Have led efforts to shape comprehensive proposals for better management for high-priority conservation landscapes in southern Utah
- Continue to follow and monitor projects that may impact the wilderness character on Forest Service lands.
- Continue to be engaged with the first-of-its-kind Implementation Task Force for the Dixie National Forest Motorized Travel Plan
- Play an active role in the Escalante River Watershed Partnership
Your donations and membership dues make our research, monitoring, and restoration work in Utah possible.
