OUR MISSION

The Utah Wilderness Coalition (UWC), is dedicated to protecting wilderness-quality lands in Utah.

Since 1989, the Coalition has advocated for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, federal legislation that would add more than 8 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah to the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Ask Your Legislators to Consponsor America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act!

This remarkable landscape is a key component of what scientists say is urgently needed today: wild lands set aside to exist in their natural state to protect ecosystems and prevent catastrophic climate change. The Red Rock bill would protect portions of Labyrinth and Desolation Canyons along with equally remarkable places like the Book Cliffs, the Dirty Devil, and parts of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments.

Nowhere else in the lower 48 can such intact wilderness-quality desert lands be found; they serve as a vital link in the interconnected chain of largely undisturbed ecosystems running from the Grand Canyon to Glacier National Park, providing important migration corridors for wildlife. Unfortunately, this national treasure is threatened by rampant off-road vehicle use, inappropriate energy development, vegetation removal projects, and other shortsighted management and policy decisions.

The time to act is now.

The red rock is sacred ancestral homeland to many Native American Tribes, holding an abundance of precious but vulnerable ancient cultural sites tucked in its canyons and mesa tops. The region serves as a critically important reservoir of clean water, air, and open space. As climate change increasingly affects our ecological health, this expansive area is becoming more and more vital as a place where the earth and its community of life can thrive.

America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act (ARRWA) was developed by activists and volunteers who exhaustively researched, field-checked, and documented what remains of Utah’s wild canyon country. The proposal is supported by the Utah Wilderness Coalition, which includes the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, and many other conservation groups, businesses, and environmental justice organizations.

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