Take Action on America's Red Rock Wilderness Act!

America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act would add more than 8 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands in Utah to the National Wilderness Preservation System, including the Dirty Devil area, Labyrinth Canyon, and parts of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments.

This visionary federal legislation was originally developed by activists and volunteers who exhaustively researched, field checked, and documented what was left of Utah’s wild canyon country. As the ancestral home of many Native American tribes, the region contains abundant and significant cultural resources. Protecting this spectacular and world-renowned landscape would also keep climate-disrupting fossil fuels in the ground and provide a vital corridor for the movement and adaptation of western wildlife species.

These wild public lands comprise an important piece of the 30% of America’s lands and waters scientists say we must protect by the year 2030 in order to prevent catastrophic collapse of our natural systems. Centrally located in the Intermountain West, these lands are also 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.

Peer-reviewed research shows that America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act can also play a role in mitigating climate change. Protecting these wild landscapes would keep a significant amount of fossil fuels in the ground, accounting for a meaningful amount of the carbon mitigation needed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Additionally, scientists estimate that the lands proposed for protection currently sequester and store 247 million metric tons of organic carbon in plants and soils. Designating these lands as wilderness would help preserve flows in the Colorado River (the lifeblood of the arid Southwest) by preventing surface-disturbing activities that cause windborne dust to coat Colorado snowpack, melting it faster and earlier.

Please sign and show your support for America' Red Rock Wilderness Act!