Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Senator Lee formally begins process to fast-track the destruction of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah – 2.26.26
Threatens to bring chaos to a crown jewel of the nation’s public lands system and upend public lands protection as we know it

Contacts:
Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org
Keri Gilliland, Communications Manager, The Wilderness Society; (303) 386-2243; kgilliland@tws.org 
Perry Wheeler, Earthjustice, (202) 792-6211, pwheeler@earthjustice.org 
Tim Peterson, Cultural Landscapes Director, Grand Canyon Trust; (801) 550-9861; tpeterson@grandcanyontrust.org 
Andrew Scibetta, NRDC, (202) 289-2421; ascibetta@nrdc.org
Kris Deutschman, Conservation Lands Foundation, 505-498-0212; kris@conservationlands.org

Washington, DC –Anti-public-lands crusader Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has formally begun the process to fast-track the destruction of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah by adding the Government Accountability Office (GAO) opinion regarding the Monument’s Management Plan to the Congressional Record (see page 51). Under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), once a “resolution of disapproval” is introduced (anticipated to occur any day), both chambers of Congress can expedite their votes and pass the measures by simple majority votes. If that happens and the resolution is signed into law by the President, the Monument Management Plan – which sets expectations for how the land will be managed for wildlife, outdoor access, dark night skies, grazing, and other uses – will be undone and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be barred from issuing another plan that is “substantially the same” in the future. 

In July 2025, Rep. Maloy (R-UT-02) requested an opinion from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) about whether Congress can overturn the current Monument Management Plan; on January 15, the GAO released an opinion that Congress can interfere this way and undo the plan. This represents a clear escalation of the use of the CRA to attack the nation’s wildest public lands and as the first CRA attack on a national monument, this action threatens to upend public land protection. Though this Congress is the first to use the CRA to overturn BLM resource management plans, using it to eliminate a national monument management plan goes much further: resource management plans cover lands that allow many different uses, but national monuments were designated to elevate conservation over extraction.

Beloved by Utahns and Americans, the Monument was established in 1996 to protect the incredible geological, ecological, cultural, and paleontological resources within its 1.9 million-acre boundaries in southern Utah. A crown jewel of the nation’s public lands system, it was the first monument managed by the BLM and was the first unit in the agency’s now-robust and expansive “National Conservation Lands” program. 

President Trump illegally shrank the Monument in 2017 and it has been reported that he is again considering eliminating protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante. Conservation groups and members of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Inter-Tribal Coalition began sounding the alarm about this potential threat on January 22, 2026. Below are quotes and additional information.

“The Utah Delegation’s attack on the Grand Staircase-Escalante is a call to action for Americans from across the nation,” said Steve Bloch, Legal Director at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. “This wild landscape is quintessential southern Utah redrock country with its stunning geology, irreplaceable cultural resources, unique fossils, and wide-open spaces. All of that is at risk if this attack succeeds and the monument management plan is undone. We intend to move heaven and earth to stop that from happening.”   

“The fate of our public lands, including our precious national monuments, should not be left to a handful of politicians who want to turn them over to industry,” said Tom Delehanty, senior attorney with Earthjustice’s Rocky Mountain Office. “While this may be the first CRA attack on a national monument, it will not be the last if members of Congress on both sides of the aisle don’t stand up to oppose it. Senator Lee’s use of this arcane law would allow it to throw out years of planning by local officials, Tribes, and communities, setting a dangerous precedent on public land protection. Anyone who values our public lands and national monuments should take note.”

“The Utah delegation knows that our national monuments are well-loved by Americans and protecting them is overwhelmingly popular among Utahns regardless of party affiliation,” said Tim Peterson, Cultural Landscapes Director at the Grand Canyon Trust. “The public would not stand for legislation that gets rid of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument outright, so they’re trying to eliminate the commonsense management plan that affords day-to-day protections to the monument. We can’t let that happen.”

“An attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante is an attack on our freedom to enjoy this special place today and generations from now,” said Ronni Flannery, senior staff attorney at The Wilderness Society. “This move disregards years of hard work and broad support, and, instead, attempts to hand our public lands over to the highest paying polluters. A vote to pass this bill is a vote against the people to erode a crown jewel of the American West.” 

“Using the Congressional Review Act to unravel Grand Staircase-Escalante’s management plan is an assault on a national treasure,” said Bobby McEnaney, Director of Land Conservation, NRDC. “It would wipe out years of science and public input and lay the groundwork to make additional attacks on Grand Staircase easier. Americans overwhelmingly support this monument. Congress must reject this reckless effort and honor its commitment to Tribes, local communities, and future generations.”

“No one ought to mistake this effort as isolated–it’s part of a concerted effort to destroy the Bureau of Land Management’s ability to manage public lands, so that privatizing or industrializing them are the only viable options,” said Chris Hill, CEO of the Conservation Lands Foundation. “Going after BLM’s first national monument sends the signal that the rest of the 30 monuments and all of the National Conservation Lands that BLM oversees are in the crosshairs, and we know from experience that the public will fight like never before to keep these places protected.”  

Additional quotes can be found here.

About Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument & the Monument Management Plan

Since its establishment, heightened protections for the Monument’s geology, paleontology, wildlife, plant communities, and ancestral sites have succeeded in preserving these unique values for generations to come, and local communities on the Monument’s doorstep have benefited as well. Nearly 30 years later, the numerous benefits of protecting Grand Staircase-Escalante are clear: the Monument preserves a remarkable ecosystem at the landscape level and sets the stage for future discovery about human, paleontological, and geological history on the Colorado Plateau. 

On December 4, 2017, President Trump ignored millions of public comments and unlawfully eliminated large swaths of the Monument, slashing it by 47 percent – roughly 900,000 acres. Thankfully, on October 8, 2021, President Biden signed a proclamation restoring Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to its full, original boundaries. In 2023, BLM began developing a new management plan for the full Monument. As a part of that work, the BLM engaged in extensive outreach to Tribal Nations, the State of Utah, local governments, stakeholders (including outfitters and guides, ranchers, local utilities), and the public. During the planning process, BLM received overwhelming support from throughout Utah and the nation for a holistic, conservation-based management plan worthy of this remarkable place.

In August 2023, a Federal District Court Judge in Utah dismissed lawsuits brought by the state of Utah and others challenging President Biden’s use of the Antiquities Act to restore the boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. The state and other plaintiffs quickly appealed that decision to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held oral argument on September 26, 2024, and may issue a decision at any time. Conservation organizations intervened on behalf of the United States to defend President Biden’s restoration of the Monuments, as have four Tribal nations.

National monuments are overwhelmingly popular. Seventy-five percent of Utah voters support the President’s ability to protect public lands as national monuments. Three in four Utah voters, including a majority of Republicans, want to keep Grand Staircase-Escalante as a national monument.

About the Congressional Review Act (CRA)

The CRA is a federal statute enacted in March 1996 that requires federal agencies to submit “rules” to Congress for a mandatory review period “before they may take effect.” If Congress votes to overturn, or “disapprove,” the rule, it “may not be reissued in substantially the same form. . . .” The BLM has long maintained that its land management plans are not “rules” subject to the CRA. Other federal land management agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service, have similarly not submitted their land management plans to Congress under the CRA.

However, emboldened by a series of non-binding Government Accountability Office (GAO) opinions, Republican members of Congress have embraced the novel theory that federal land management plans are in fact “rules” subject to the CRA. This year, Congress has passed six CRA resolutions overturning previously finalized land management plans or other types of public lands management decisions.  The GAO issued an opinion regarding the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument Management Plan on January 15, 2026.

• While overturning the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument management plan would not change the boundaries of the monument or alter President Biden’s proclamation establishing the monument, it is a serious threat with potential implications for all national monuments. 

• Monument management plans set expectations for how the land will be managed for wildlife, outdoor access, dark night skies, grazing, and other uses. The Utah delegation’s gambit threatens that certainty. Using the CRA to overturn the Grand Staircase-Escalante management plan disregards years of public input on how these lands are managed for the public, including hunters, hikers, scientists, ranchers, and others who hold permits to use public lands inside the monument.

• Congress is ignoring Tribal Nations. Multiple Native American Tribes are connected to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The Grand Staircase-Escalante Inter-Tribal Coalition advocates for the conservation of their ancestral lands and for the continued protection and preservation of the cultural and environmental resources found within the monument. Tribes provide deeply valuable perspectives related to the management of Monument lands and cultural resources that tell the story of their peoples, and are integral to the history of the United States, and should be consulted before any changes are made to the Monument’s management plan.

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The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is a nonprofit organization with members and supporters from around the country dedicated to protecting America’s redrock wilderness. From offices in Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC, our team of professionals defends the redrock, organizes support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, and stewards this world-renowned landscape. Learn more at www.suwa.org.

The Wilderness Society is a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting America’s wild places since 1935. Through science, advocacy and partnerships with communities and policymakers, we champion the protection of wilderness, national parks, forests, and other public lands that provide clean air and water, wildlife habitat and the freedom to connect with nature. For more information, visit www.wilderness.org. 

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change. We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer.

The Grand Canyon Trust is a nonprofit conservation organization dedicated to safeguarding the wonders of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau, while supporting the rights of its Native peoples. Learn more at grandcanyontrust.org  

NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) is an international nonprofit environmental organization with more than 3 million members and online activists. Established in 1970, NRDC uses science, policy, law and people power to confront the climate crisis, protect public health and safeguard nature. NRDC has offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Beijing and Delhi (an office of NRDC India Pvt. Ltd).

Conservation Lands Foundation represents a national, nonpartisan network of community advocates who are solely focused on the public lands overseen by the Bureau of Land Management including National Conservation Lands.

 

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Grand Staircase-Escalante Needs Your Voice!

 

As you’re likely aware by now, Utah’s congressional delegation is expected to introduce a “Joint Resolution” in Congress that, if passed, would undo the current management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This is an “all hands on deck” moment for everyone who loves the monument, Utah’s redrock country, and public lands across the country. 

Both houses of Congress will get back to business on Monday, February 23. In the meantime, SUWA has been busy mobilizing supporters to contact (or meet with) their members of Congress and urge them to oppose the joint resolution. Click here to learn what actions you can take now, from wherever you live. You can also get up to speed on this issue by reading recent media coverage in the Salt Lake Tribune, Durango Herald, Rocky Mountain Public Radio, Center for Western Priorities, and Writers on the Range.

If you missed our Emergency Webinar in Defense of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on February 9, we encourage you to watch it here. SUWA Legal Director Steve Bloch will also be speaking on this subject at the Great Old Broads for Wilderness “Lunch and Learn” webinar on February 26.

Finally, if you haven’t already done so, we urge you to take action on our website. If you live outside of Utah, reach out to a member of SUWA’s Grassroots Organizing Team to get more involved and find out if your member of Congress is one who could cast a deciding vote. We’re currently focusing grassroots pressure on Montana, Idaho, the Western Slope of Colorado, Nebraska, the greater Philadelphia area (including both Pennsylvania and New Jersey), and Maine. Thanks for speaking up for Grand Staircase!

Photo © Ray Bloxham/SUWA

Help Us Kick Off the 2026 Stewardship Season in Early March!

 

Our Stewardship Program’s 2026 season kicks off in less than two weeks. Please consider joining us early this year to help build the momentum we need for a successful year of hands-on conservation.

Got a touch of spring fever? We’re looking for volunteers to join us from March 5-7 for our very first project in sunny southwest Utah, where a rolling sea of pale sand dunes punctuated with stately ponderosa pines supports a population of rare, endemic tiger beetles. We’ll work on habitat protection with rangers, installing a wooden, low-impact fence to protect the wild parts of this landscape and promote responsible outdoor recreation. Don’t miss this great opportunity to experience and help conserve a unique Utah landscape. Click here to learn more about this project and apply!

Our complete 2026 Stewardship Calendar can be found here. As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Stewardship Program staff at volunteer@suwa.org.

Photo © Ray Bloxham/SUWA

Coalition Files Lawsuit Over Illegal Highway Approval through Red Cliffs NCA

 

Earlier this month, a coalition of six local, Utah-based, and national conservation organizations, including SUWA, sued the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for illegally reapproving the four-lane Northern Corridor Highway through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area near St. George. Conservation groups filed the lawsuit after learning that the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) would be starting ground-disturbing activities for the highway’s construction despite the BLM having yet to approve a required highway development plan.

The proposed Northern Corridor Highway would carve a high-speed highway through designated critical habitat for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise. It would damage iconic redrock landscapes, disrupt treasured outdoor recreation opportunities, and set a dangerous precedent for congressionally protected public lands across the U.S.

Abandoning their previous scientific findings, the federal agencies’ recent decision reversed a December 2024 rejection of the same proposal by the BLM and Fish and Wildlife Service and marks the eighth time the controversial highway has been considered. The project has been stopped on seven previous attempts over concerns related to wildlife, public safety, legal compliance, and community opposition.

>> Read the coalition press release

Photo courtesy of Conserve Southwest Utah

Meet Canyon Keepers: SUWA’s Monthly Giving Program

 

Monthly giving provides a strong and reliable foundation that allows SUWA to focus on our most pressing work: defending against threats of public land privatization and development, fossil fuel leasing, agency mismanagement, and other forms of exploitation.

Our monthly donors have been part of SUWA’s story for years. This circle of members, whose dependable contributions support our work year-round, are now called “Canyon Keepers.” If you’re already a monthly donor, thank you! If not, we hope you’ll consider becoming one.

Becoming a Canyon Keeper is simple. It only takes a few minutes to set up, and once you do, your gift renews automatically each month. You can increase, decrease, or pause your support at any time.

To welcome you to the Canyon Keepers circle, we’ll send you a limited-edition Canyon Wren canvas bag to show our gratitude.

>> Click here to become a Canyon Keeper today!

Artwork by Riley Lubich

Join Our Salt Lake City Team!

SUWA is hiring for two positions:

• A Summer Law Clerk in our Salt Lake City Office. Summer law clerks have the opportunity to work with SUWA’s legal team on ongoing litigation and policy advocacy. SUWA accepts applications from rising 2L and 3L students with preference for 3Ls. Learn more and apply by Friday, Feb. 27.
  
  
• A Utah Grassroots Organizer in our Salt Lake City Office. The Organizer recruits, trains, and mobilizes volunteers, students, community members, Tribal partners, and allied organizations to protect Utah’s wildlands. This role combines base-building, campaign organizing, rapid response mobilization, coalition leadership, and public education. Learn more and apply by Wednesday, March 4.

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All Pueblo Council of Governors Endorses America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act – 2.19.26 

Contacts:
Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org

Albuquerque, NM – The All Pueblo Council of Governors, the collective voice of the 20 Pueblo Nations of New Mexico and Texas, voted on December 4, 2025, to support America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act (ARRWA). The Council’s resolution endorses congressional wilderness designation for lands within the Act, which would protect more than 8 million acres of federal public lands in Utah. This is the fifth tribal endorsement of ARRWA, following endorsements by the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe (2025), Zuni Tribe (2024), Hopi Tribe (2023), and Navajo Nation (2021).  

“The protection of cultural landscapes, traditional cultural properties and sacred sites of Pueblo people is paramount to each Pueblo’s cultural preservation now and into the future,” said All Pueblo Council of Governors Chairman Dominic Gachupin. “The lands in America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act are aboriginal lands, containing the testimony of Ancestral Puebloan occupation and use for thousands of years, and should be permanently protected.” 

ARRWA would add more than 8 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands in Utah to the National Wilderness Preservation System; this includes remarkable places like the Book Cliffs, the Dirty Devil, and parts of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. As the ancestral home of all Pueblo peoples, the region contains abundant and significant cultural resources.  

This spectacular 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. Protecting it would also keep climate-disrupting fossil fuels in the ground and provide a vital corridor for the movement and adaptation of western wildlife species. 

“We are honored to have the All Pueblo Council of Governors endorsement of America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act and their support in protecting public lands throughout Utah,” said SUWA Executive Director Scott Braden. “Lands in America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act are the ancestral homelands of the Pueblo peoples and it is a privilege to be able to work together to ensure that these culturally and ecologically important landscapes remain in their natural state for current and future generations.” 

ARRWA has been introduced in the US House of Representatives since 1989 and the Senate since 1997. The current sponsors are Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-NM-01); the bill has 18 cosponsors in the Senate and 61 in the House. The bill is supported by SUWA, the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and more than 200 other organizations belonging to the Utah Wilderness Coalition. 

“As the sponsor of America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, which would protect millions of acres of lands that are ancestral and culturally important to Tribes and Pueblos across the west, I’m grateful to the All Pueblo Council of Governors for endorsing this legislation,” said Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM). “Protecting these extraordinary landscapes is an important step in honoring our commitments to Tribes, helps address climate change, and safeguards the lands and waters of the West for future generations.” 

“The endorsement of America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act by the All Pueblo Council of Governors continues the momentum of support from Tribal Nations to protect wilderness in the West,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL). “I’m grateful that my bill has this support, as it’s only together that we are able to protect these important places for future generations.” 

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The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is a nonprofit organization with members and supporters from around the country dedicated to protecting America’s redrock wilderness. From offices in Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC, our team of professionals defends the redrock, organizes support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, and stewards a world-renowned landscape. Learn more at www.suwa.org. 

 

 

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Utah Grassroots Organizer

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah (on-site, full-time, exempt) 
Salary Range: $54,000-$58,000 commensurate with experience 
Application Deadline: March 4, 2026 

Download the Utah Grassroots Organizer Job Description as a PDF

About SUWA

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is the only nonprofit organization working full-time to protect Utah’s redrock wilderness—some of the most spectacular public lands in America. Since 1983, SUWA’s staff, board, and members have worked to defend this landscape from threats like fossil fuel development, unnecessary road construction, and destructive off-road vehicle use. With offices in Salt Lake City, Moab, and Washington, DC, and a membership base of over 12,000 across the country, SUWA has secured lasting protections for more than 5.5 million acres of wild public lands. 

Our mission is to preserve the outstanding wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau and ensure these lands remain in their natural state for the benefit of all. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our work and in our organization, knowing that the redrock is for everyone. 

Position Summary 

The Organizer recruits, trains, and mobilizes volunteers, students, community members, Tribal partners, and allied organizations to protect Utah’s wildlands. This role combines base-building, campaign organizing, rapid response mobilization, coalition leadership, and public education. 

The Organizer represents SUWA at community events, rallies, conferences, and in coalition spaces, and works closely with staff to implement strategic campaigns responding to federal land management plans, national monument threats, and legislative proposals. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Build and sustain a statewide network of grassroots leaders and activists. 

• Organize public comment campaigns, call-in days, rallies, town hall mobilizations, and educational events. 

• Coordinate SUWA’s outreach at festivals, conferences, and community gatherings. 

• Deliver presentations to student groups and community organizations. 

• Train activists to write effective public comments and media pieces. 

• Hire and supervise organizing interns. 

• Represent SUWA in statewide and national coalitions. 

• Help plan annual leadership retreats and national advocacy fly-ins. 

Qualifications 

• Organizing experience in public lands or environmental campaigns preferred. 

• Strong public speaking, writing, and relationship-building skills. 

• Ability to recruit and motivate volunteers and develop emerging leaders. 

• Organized, self-directed, adaptable, and comfortable with flexible hours. 

• Commitment to wilderness protection and public lands advocacy. 

• Proficiency with common digital tools (Microsoft Suite, Google Docs, Zoom, social media). 

If you are energized by building community power, organizing under challenging political conditions, and protecting some of the most iconic wild landscapes in the country, we encourage you to apply. 

To Apply 

Email a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to jobs@suwa.org. Application deadline is March 4, 2026. Applications will be reviewed and interviews offered starting mid-March. No phone calls, please.  

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February 12, 2026 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SUWA Announces 2026 Stewardship Season Project Calendar – 2.12.26  Trips begin in March and registration is live now 

Contacts:
Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org

Salt Lake City, UT – The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) has released its 2026 Stewardship Season Project Calendar. The Stewardship Program, now in its 11th season, offers service-learning opportunities that allow volunteers to experience firsthand the public lands SUWA is working with its members and supporters to protect. This year’s calendar includes 27 projects, with several projects in designated Wilderness areas such as Dark Canyon and Red Mountain, as well as Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. Review the full project calendar and application form; additional projects will be added to the calendar as the season progresses. 

“For over a decade, SUWA’s Stewardship program has been a steady presence on the ground, ensuring the protection of public land though hands-on restoration work while building a passionate community of wilderness stewards, said Jeremy Lynch, SUWA Stewardship Director. “Whether it’s a multi-day backpacking trip deep in a National Monument, a short weekend in the West Desert, or a half-day rehabilitating public lands close to Salt Lake City, this year’s project calendar highlights the diversity of public lands (and public lands volunteers!) and the many different ways volunteers help protect these remarkable places. I hope we see you on a trip this year, deepening your relationship with public lands in Utah.” 

During the 2026 project season (March through early November), trips will vary from half-day excursions, to two-to-three-night campouts, to weeklong backpacking trips. This year, there will be trips focused on designated Wilderness Implementation, as well as trips focused on Wilderness Study Area (WSA) Protection and Monitoring; WSAs are eligible as wilderness under SUWA’s signature legislation, America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act. Several trips address protecting cultural resources or the impacts of increasing recreation. 

Every listing on the project calendar provides a rundown of the project scope and level of difficulty, as well as the general application and acceptance process. Individuals may apply for up to two projects for the 2026 season. Interested individuals can complete a general application here. Registration will fill up quickly so we encourage interested individuals to apply ASAP. SUWA has select scholarships available for qualifying individuals and groups who would like to join a stewardship project. If you have any questions about a scholarship or a project, please reach out to Stewardship Director Jeremy Lynch at jeremy@suwa.org.  

Additional Resources: 

• SUWA Web Page on Stewardship Program 
• 2026 Project Calendar and Application Form 
• Stewardship Program Scholarship Information and Application 
• 2025 Stewardship Season Year in Review 
• Less-than-a-minute explainer video about the Stewardship Program. 

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The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is a nonprofit organization with members and supporters around the country dedicated to protecting America’s redrock wilderness. From offices in Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC, our team of professionals defends the redrock, organizes support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, and stewards a world-renowned landscape. Learn more at www.suwa.org. 

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Summer clerkship dates: Flexible – mid-May to mid-August
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Application Deadline: February 27, 2026. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis until then.

Download Summer Law Clerk Job Description as PDF

ABOUT SUWA:

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is dedicated to the preservation of the outstanding wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau in Utah, and the management of these lands in their natural state for the benefit of all Americans. SUWA advocates for local and national recognition of the region’s unique character, and supports both administrative and legislative initiatives to permanently protect the wild places in Utah within the National Wilderness Preservation System.

SUWA’s legal staff litigate and advocate for durable public land conservation policies, focusing on a large array of issues including preventing fossil fuel development, promoting balanced travel and recreation management, and the protection of cultural resources.

DUTIES:

Summer law clerks have the opportunity to work with SUWA’s legal team on ongoing litigation and policy advocacy. Clerks may draft memos and litigation documents, complete legal research, and attend court proceedings and depositions.

QUALIFICATIONS:

SUWA accepts applications from rising 2L and 3L students with preference for 3Ls. Course history or prior experience relevant to environmental, public lands, and administrative law is also preferred.

COMPENSATION:

• The internship pays $7,000 for the summer with an expected 40 hours per week for 10 weeks from mid-May – mid-August in SUWA’s Salt Lake City office.
• SUWA does not provide housing in the Salt Lake area but can provide resources and advice for those relocating.

TO APPLY: Email a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and unofficial law school transcript to Hanna Larsen at hanna@suwa.org by February 27, 2026. Applications will be reviewed and interviews offered on a rolling basis. No phone calls please. Find us at www.suwa.org, on Instagram (@protectwildutah), and on Facebook (/SouthernUtahWildernessAlliance)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SUWA

The mission of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is to defend and protect the wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau and in Utah’s West Desert.

We are committed to the idea that our commonalities greatly outweigh our differences, and that the redrock is for everyone. Our mission is to protect the redrock for the wonder and enjoyment of all future generations, both human and non-human alike.

The lands we work to protect are the ancestral homelands of many Tribes, including those that were forcibly removed at the hands of the U.S. government in an effort to exterminate their cultures, languages, and ways of life. These injustices are still felt today, but the quest to erase the Tribes failed: indigenous communities continue their traditions and remain an integral part of the landscape and our community. We are committed to working toward understanding this history; to expanding present-day common ground, collaboration, and reconciliation with our Tribal neighbors; and to advocating that Tribes receive a seat at the table when others would exclude them.

The environmental movement has a regrettable history of excluding and oppressing marginalized people. We know that the redrock, humanity, and the future of the planet itself depend on working together to solve our greatest common threat: the climate crisis. As we face the challenges of the 21st century head-on, we recognize we can only do so by including, involving, and elevating Tribes, communities of color, people of diverse economic backgrounds, faith communities, the LGBTQ+ community, and the tapestry of experience that weaves together our common humanity. We are committed to doing this both within our staff and through our daily work to protect the redrock.

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SUWA and our partners invite you to join us on Monday, February 9th at 6:00 pm MT for an urgent webinar and call to action in defense of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

Emergency Webinar in Defense of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Monday, February 9th on Zoom at 6:00 pm Mountain Time
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As you’ve hopefully seen from our recent emails, Utah’s congressional delegation is expected to introduce a “Joint Resolution” in Congress that, if passed, would undo the current Monument Management Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante. This would be a devastating blow to the monument and could turn it into a wildly different place: one where out-of-control off-road vehicle use, landscape-level clearcutting of native pinyon-juniper forests, and other extractive activities are all possible. We cannot let this happen.

Making this all possible is a little-known law called the Congressional Review Act (CRA). Join us on Monday to learn about the background of this obscure law and how its unorthodox application could not only impact Grand Staircase-Escalante, but is also being used to upend public land protections across the country. We’ll spend the second half of the call highlighting ways we can all fight back and defend the monument, including by contacting members of Congress and requesting in-district meetings.

Please share this invite with your professional contacts, friends, and family. We encourage attendance regardless of where you live, but especially if you live in Montana, Idaho, the Western Slope of Colorado, Nebraska, the greater Philadelphia area (including both Pennsylvania and New Jersey), or Maine, this is an urgent event to join!

Don’t forget to RSVP here. See you on Monday night!

SUWA’s Organizing Team

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February 6, 2026 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SUWA Files Litigation to Stop Illegal Actions by Garfield County in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument – 2.6.26  Garfield County strikes at heart of the Monument, ignores federal law 

Contacts:
Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org

Salt Lake City, UT – Yesterday, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) filed a lawsuit and moved for an emergency injunction in federal district court, alleging that Garfield County, Utah violated federal law when it began making unauthorized “improvements” to the Hole-in-the-Rock Road. The Road runs from the junction of Highway 12, east of the town of Escalante, to the top of the cliffs above the Colorado River within the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Surrounded by wilderness-quality lands, 57 of the road’s 62 miles are within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and 16 miles of the road are in Garfield County. It is an unpaved, primarily dirt road and core to the remote experience that defines the 1.9-million-acre National Monument.  

Garfield County is no stranger to ignoring federal laws. On Monday, Feb. 3, the Department of Justice provided SUWA and others a copy of a letter sent by Garfield County on Tuesday, January 27 to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument manager regarding the County’s planned activities on the Hole-in-the-Rock Road. As detailed in the letter and verified on-the-ground, Garfield County is currently conducting and plans to continue conducting unauthorized road improvements on the Hole-in-the-Rock Road including realigning and widening the road and chip sealing (effectively paving) a 10-mile stretch of the road (changing the surface from dirt to chip seal). 

While Garfield County has title to a right-of-way for the Hole-in-the-Rock Road, it does not own the road or the land beneath it (this remains federal public land) and the County is required to consult with the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) before making any improvements. The BLM is required by law to make sure that activities like these do not cause unnecessary damage to public lands and resources; BLM has entirely failed in those duties, idly standing by while the County does this unauthorized work and damages the surrounding area. As detailed in SUWA’s lawsuit and motion for an emergency injunction,  each of these described activities constitutes unauthorized improvements to the road and the County must cease its work immediately and “consult” with BLM before taking any further action. The point of consultation is to allow BLM to fulfill its statutory obligations to protect monument objects and values and to determine if the County’s proposed activities are both reasonable and necessary.  

Below is a statement from SUWA Staff Attorney Hanna Larsen and additional information. 

“The scenic, rugged, and remote Hole-in-the-Rock Road is how many visitors first experience the majesty of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The County’s illegal actions seek to destroy that experience, turning the Road into one you might find in any city in the nation instead of a one-of-a-kind National Monument,” said Hanna Larsen, Staff Attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA). “Paving will lead to more, faster, and louder traffic forever changing the remote, serene backcountry experience the Monument was created to protect and that draws visitors from around the world.”  

From the 2021 Proclamation re-establishing the National Monument:  

“To the southeast of the Upper Escalante Canyons, adjacent to Capitol Reef National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, is a region with a rich pioneer history that functions as a gateway to the many slot canyons and arches near the Escalante River. Traversing the area is the historically significant Hole-in-the-Rock Road, which generally follows the route that Latter-day Saint pioneers constructed between 1879 and 1880 when crossing southern Utah to establish a wagon route between Escalante and southeast Utah settlements.  

Today, the road provides access to many of the landscape’s resources, including Devil’s Garden, an area with hoodoos, colorful rock formations, and unique sandstone arches like the impressively delicate Metate Arch; the small but attractive Little Jumbo Arch; the widely photographed Sunrise and Sunset arches; and Chimney Rock, a remote, lonely sandstone pillar that seems to defy its otherwise flat surroundings. This area is also the location of Dance Hall Rock, an important landmark where Latter-day Saint pioneers camped and held meetings and dances when constructing the Hole-in-the-Rock Trail.  

These uncompromising desert lands are home to high concentrations of rare species of bees with fascinating adaptations to their local environment, such as Diadasia bees, which build nests in the hard desert soil that feature a clay chimney on top, an architectural design that has, thus far, stumped scientists trying to understand its utility. Consisting of rock primarily from the Jurassic Period, there are many paleontological sites in this region. Among those, the sprawling Twentymile Wash Dinosaur Megatrackway consists of more than several hundred individual dinosaur tracks and what some scientists believe is a rare, mid-line tail-drag impression left in the Escalante Member of the Entrada Formation by a sauropod, or long-necked dinosaur.” 

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The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is a nonprofit organization with members and supporters around the country dedicated to protecting America’s redrock wilderness. From offices in Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC, our team of professionals defends the redrock, organizes support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, and stewards a world-renowned landscape. Learn more at www.suwa.org. 

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February 4, 2026

Lawsuit Challenges Illegal Highway Through Utah’s Red Cliffs National Conservation Area – 2.4.26 Local, State, and National Conservation Organizations Seek to Protect Threatened Mojave Desert Tortoise, Redrock Landscapes, and Recreation

Contacts:
Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org

Washington, DC – Today a coalition of six local, Utah-based, and national conservation organizations sued the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for illegally reapproving the four-lane Northern Corridor Highway through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area near St. George, Utah. Conservation groups filed the lawsuit after receiving information that the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) would be starting ground-disturbing activities for the highway’s construction based on interim authorizations from BLM and despite BLM having yet to approve a required highway development plan for public lands managed by the agency. 

The proposed Northern Corridor Highway would carve a high-speed highway through designated critical habitat for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise within Red Cliffs National Conservation Area. It would damage iconic redrock landscapes, disrupt treasured outdoor recreation opportunities, and set a dangerous precedent for congressionally protected public lands across the U.S.

“Preservation of Red Cliffs National Conservation Area is inextricably linked to the quality of life and economic prosperity in Washington County,” said Stacey Wittek, Conserve Southwest Utah’s Executive Director. “Our community has repeatedly made clear that better traffic solutions exist and that they oppose a highway through what should be protected lands. Given that UDOT is wasting no time moving forward with ground-distributing activities, we had to act to stop this illegal project.” 

Today’s lawsuit, filed by Advocates for the West in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenges federal agencies’ January 2026 reapproval of UDOT’s highway proposal for violating multiple federal laws, including the Omnibus Public Land Management Act, Land and Water Conservation Fund Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Environmental Policy Act.

Abandoning their previous scientific findings, the federal agencies’ recent decision reversed a December 2024 rejection of the same proposal by the BLM and Fish and Wildlife Service and marks the eighth time the controversial highway has been considered. The project has been stopped on seven previous attempts over concerns related to wildlife, public safety, legal compliance, and community opposition.

“To continue to push for a widely rejected and illegal highway and expect a different result is a waste of everyone’s resources,” said Hannah Goldblatt, staff attorney at Advocates for the West and counsel for the conservation groups. “And once again, federal agencies are complicit in the effort by approving the paving of this congressionally protected, sensitive, scenic landscape. The Northern Corridor Highway not only violates bedrock environmental laws but undermines the integrity of protected public lands nationwide. We won’t let that happen.”

Below are statements on behalf of local residents and Utah-based and national conservation organizations:

“This lawsuit, like the last one, is necessary because our local governments have declined to engage their constituents in an open community dialogue—one that could more clearly define the problem, address its related impacts, and explore alternative solutions that have been consistently ignored. They have left their constituents with no choice, but it’s never too late to talk,” said St. George resident Tom Butine. 

“When Congress designated Red Cliffs as a National Conservation Area, that was a promise to the American people that this landscape would be protected forever. Allowing a four-lane highway to bulldoze through a congressionally protected National Conservation Area betrays that promise, obliterates the very concept of permanent protection and puts every single acre of America’s protected public lands directly in harm’s way. Today it’s Red Cliffs. Tomorrow it could be any of the millions of acres of protected public lands Americans and rural communities depend on. We won’t let that happen, and we will fight this decision with everything we have,” said Chris Hill, Chief Executive Officer of the Conservation Lands Foundation. 

“The Red Cliffs National Conservation Area is a shared public treasure that should continue to be managed for the purposes for which it was established by Congress in 2009: ‘to conserve, protect and enhance for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations the ecological, scenic, wildlife, recreational, cultural, historical, natural, educational and scientific resources of the National Conservation Area’ and ‘to protect each species that is located in the National Conservation Area.’ Bulldozing a four-lane highway through this landscape would permanently destroy these irreplaceable resources and deny us the freedom to continue enjoying them,” said Gregg DeBie, senior staff attorney at The Wilderness Society. 

“Red Cliffs is exactly the kind of landscape Congress intended to protect when it created the National Conservation Area system—spectacular redrock country that provides critical habitat for the Mojave desert tortoise and space for people to experience the quiet and beauty of wild Utah. The Bureau of Land Management’s decision to greenlight a four-lane highway through the heart of this protected area defies both the law and common sense. Utahns have fought for decades to ensure that public lands like Red Cliffs remain intact for future generations, and we won’t stand by while that promise is broken,” said Kya Marienfeld, Wildlands Attorney with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

“This is narrow-minded, short-term thinking, and the BLM has clearly caved to local and state political pressure with this decision. It is impossible to square the agency’s legal obligation to ‘conserve, protect, and enhance’ the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area with its decision to approve a new highway through the heart of the NCA. If this project isn’t halted it will decimate one of the last strongholds of the Mojave desert tortoises in the mistaken belief that it will shorten commute times,” said Chris Krupp, Public Lands Attorney for WildEarth Guardians.

“The Trump administration’s about-face is cynical and cruel, and this lawsuit shows it’s also unlawful. The Bureau of Land Management’s decision will allow Utah to bulldoze through a protected conservation area and build another highway feeding urban sprawl. This beloved natural refuge has some of the last best desert tortoise habitat in Utah and was set aside because it’s essential for the tortoises to survive and thrive into the future. These public lands should be kept wild and open for fragile wildlife and everyone who loves Red Cliffs,” said Lisa Belenky, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity. 

A History of Rejection: 

In a decades-long fight, local residents, conservation organizations, and outdoor recreationists have strongly opposed the Northern Corridor Highway. Despite the immense local opposition, the BLM and Fish and Wildlife Service approved a right-of-way for the Northern Corridor Highway in the final days of the first Trump administration. Conservation groups sued, arguing that the approval violated multiple federal laws.

The case resulted in a settlement agreement in 2023, which the BLM’s recent reapproval violates, and a U.S. District Court decision sending back the project’s 2021 right-of-way approval for reconsideration. Agencies acknowledged that the approval did not comply with the National Historic Preservation Act and required additional environmental analysis in light of recent wildfires that further degraded Mojave desert tortoise habitat and native vegetation. After updating its environmental analysis, the BLM again rejected the project in late 2024. 

The agency’s 2024 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement found the project would increase wildfire probability and frequency, permanently eliminate designated critical tortoise habitat, spread noxious weeds and invasive plants, and harm more cultural and historical resources than any alternative considered.

In October 2025, the BLM said it would reconsider the application after UDOT argued that the federally endorsed alternative was economically infeasible, despite documented environmental and community costs associated with the Northern Corridor.

In 2021, 6,800 acres west of St. George called “Zone 6,” or the Greater Moe’s Valley, were added to the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve as mitigation for the Northern Corridor Highway. Still, Zone 6 includes a popular climbing area and trails on state-owned lands that lack permanent protection. Conservation groups argue that local leaders should more earnestly engage stakeholders and explore permanent protections for Zone 6 without unlawfully sacrificing lands in Red Cliffs National Conservation Area for construction of the Northern Corridor Highway.

About Red Cliffs National Conservation Area: 

The 44,724-acre Red Cliffs National Conservation Area is part of the larger Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, which is jointly managed by the BLM, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the state of Utah, Washington County, and local municipalities. The reserve was established under a 1995 Habitat Conservation Plan as a compromise to protect roughly 61,000 acres of public lands for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise while allowing development on about 300,000 acres of state and private land. Congress designated the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area in 2009 to “conserve, protect, and enhance…ecological, scenic, wildlife, recreational, cultural, historical, natural, educational, and scientific resources” of the public lands within the unit. 

The region supports key populations of the threatened Mojave desert tortoise and other at-risk plants and animals, including the Gila monster, burrowing owl, and kit fox. Researchers say the Mojave desert tortoise is on a path to extinction, and its habitat in southwest Utah––which houses some of the densest tortoise populations––is especially vulnerable amid rapid growth in the region. 

Located about 45 miles from Zion National Park, the conservation area includes 130 miles of trails, two wilderness areas, heritage public use sites, Native American cultural artifacts, several threatened or endangered species and one of Utah’s most popular state parks, Snow Canyon State Park. Visitors come from around the world to hike, mountain bike, rock climb, horseback ride, photograph, and marvel at the expansive redrock landscapes. 

Additional Information and Resources: 

• Informational website: protectredcliffs.com
• Federal Agency Re-Approves Highway Through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, Abandons Own Scientific Findings – January 21, 2026
• BLM Again Considering Four-Lane Highway Through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area – October 7, 2025
• Decades-Long Highway Fight Ends with Victory for Red Cliffs NCA – December 20th, 2024
• Petition to Permanently Protect the Greater Moe’s Valley Area
• Local and National Organizations Applaud Plan Signaling Denial of Highway Right-of-Way – November 7, 2024
• Conservation Organizations Respond to Washington County’s Continued Attacks on Red Cliffs National Conservation Area – August 7, 2024
• Federal Agencies Release Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on a Highway Right-of-Way Through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area – May 9, 2024
• BLM and FWS Press Release – November 15, 2023
• Report – Washington County at a Crossroads: An analysis of the proposed Northern Corridor Highway project in Southwest Utah
• Summary of Desert Tortoise Study in Red Cliffs NCA: Population Trends, Threats to Persistence, and Conservation Significanc

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The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is a nonprofit organization with members and supporters around the country dedicated to protecting America’s redrock wilderness. From offices in Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC, our team of professionals defends the redrock, organizes support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, and stewards a world-renowned landscape. Learn more at www.suwa.org. 

 

 

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February 4, 2026 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SUWA Statement on Historic Roadways Protection Act – 2.4.26  Legislation would stop management of motorized vehicle use across more than 6 million acres of BLM-managed redrock country in Utah 

Contacts:
Grant Stevens, Communications Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA); (319) 427-0260; grant@suwa.org

Washington, DC – Today, during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Business Meeting, S.90 (the Historic Roadways Protection Act), passed on a party-line vote: 11-9. For all intents and purposes, this legislation would permanently prohibit the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from effectively managing motorized vehicle use across more than 6 million acres of BLM-managed lands in Utah, leaving these public lands vulnerable to destruction and degradation. Below is a statement from SUWA Staff Attorney Laura Peterson and additional information.  

“If Senator Lee had his way, millions of acres of southern Utah would be a motorized playground free-for-all,” said Laura Peterson, Staff Attorney at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA). “The public lands impacted by this legislation include some of the wildest, most remote areas of redrock country, including narrow, winding canyons; soaring redrock cliffs; forested plateaus; and desert waterways. It puts big game habitat, areas rich in irreplaceable cultural sites, and iconic recreation destinations—places like Labyrinth Canyon, the San Rafael Swell, and the Dirty Devil—at risk of being damaged or destroyed.” 

Additional Information: 

Between 2011-12, the State of Utah and many of its counties filed more than two dozen Quiet Title Act lawsuits in federal district court for the District of Utah. The lawsuits claim title to more than 12,000 alleged rights-of-way totaling more than 35,000 miles across public lands managed by agencies overseen by the Interior Department: so-called “R.S. 2477 rights-of-way.”  

Utah and its counties are claiming title to R.S. 2477 rights-of-way within National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, National Monuments, National Recreation Areas, Congressionally-designated Wilderness, wilderness study areas, critical habitat, and fragile archeological sites. In addition to title, Utah is seeking the right to improve and widen each of these routes, in some cases up to 66 feet wide. An example of a RS2477 claim, from Kane County, is seen at the top of this page.

Roughly 80% of Utah’s claimed rights-of-way are made up of unimproved dirt roads and trails, including cow paths, stream bottoms and faded two-tracks; some of these routes do not even exist on the ground and are instead simply lines on a map. These are the vast majority of the “historic roadways” at issue in Senator Lee’s Historic Roadways Protection Act.  

The Act would prohibit the BLM from both implementing already completed motorized travel management plans and finalizing new plans until all of the state’s Quiet Title Act lawsuits are “adjudicated,” a process Senator Lee knows will take decades.  Since Utah filed its lawsuits in 2011-12, not a single case has been adjudicated by the district court.  

In the meantime, off-road vehicle use in Utah has skyrocketed. While these vehicles provide outdoor recreation opportunities, they also have an outsized impact on public land resources and other recreationists. It is critical that motorized vehicle use on public lands is managed and balanced. Travel management planning is essential to ensuring management that provides access to, and opportunities for, recreation while also preserving irreplaceable resources. Sen. Lee’s bill would prohibit the BLM from doing its job by preventing the agency from developing or implementing these crucial travel plans.  

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The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is a nonprofit organization with members and supporters around the country dedicated to protecting America’s redrock wilderness. From offices in Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC, our team of professionals defends the redrock, organizes support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, and stewards a world-renowned landscape. Learn more at www.suwa.org. 

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