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America's Red Rock Wilderness Act

Action needed by , 2009

One of the nation's most beautiful wild landscapes is in southern Utah, with towering buttes, red sandstone plateaus and deep, winding canyons.  This "Red Rock Country" is the largest network of unprotected wild land outside of Alaska and is a unique American treasure. Unfortunately, this spectacular landscape is threatened by oil and gas drilling, and rampant abuse by off-road-vehicles (ORVs).

Hoosier's care about the Canyonlands and the Sierra Club is building congressional support to pass America's Red Rock Wilderness Act, which would give wilderness designation to more than 9 million acres of our federal public land in southern Utah, protecting this landscape forever.

There are many people across America who volunteer to help protect the red rock canyonlands. Rich Csenge is one of them. Rich has spoken from the heart to hundreds of people in Maine and helped to start a festival in Utah celebrating public lands. Watch this five-minute film of Rich’s story, set to the music of a symphony commissioned to celebrate “America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act,” or click here to see it on YouTube. 

What You Can Do

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Send your congressperson an email urging them to cosponsor America's Red Rock Wilderness Act. EVERY CLICK COUNTS!

Become a Sierra Club Utah Activist
The Sierra Club's National Utah Wilderness Team works to increase Congressional support for America's Red Rock Wilderness Act by encouraging Sierra Club members across the country to become involved in the grass roots campaign to protect Utah's magnificent wild lands. The Utah Wilderness Team has a dozen members and active participation from volunteers across the country, several of whom are listed below.

For more information and to learn how you can get involved, contact Bob Jordan, Chair, bobjord@earthlink.net, or Clayton Daughenbaugh, Vice Chair, claytonhd@xmission.com.