SUWA Brochure - Page 11

UTAH'S REDROCK WILDERNESS:
A NATIONAL TREASURE THREATENED

"MY LITTLE TOWN HAS 250 HOTEL ROOMS...A GIANT-SCREEN CINEMAX THEATER, A WILDLIFE MUSEUM, GALLERIES, BOOKSTORES AND GIFT SHOPS EXPANDING EACH YEAR AND RESTAURANTS FILLED TO OVERFLOWING--ALL THIS IN A LITTLE TOWN AT THE EDGE OF THE WILDERNESS, ON THE EDGE OF THIS ISSUE. WILDERNESS IS THE GOOSE WHICH GIVES US THESE GOLDEN EGGS. HARM THAT WILDERNESS--KILL THAT GOOSE--AND WE LOSE FOREVER OUR GOLDEN EGGS."

- Phillip Bimstein, Mayor, Town of Springdale, Utah

Labyrinth Canyon, East rim of Labyrinth Canyon above mouth of Ten Mile Canyon.
© TOM TILL
GREATER CANYONLANDS. Canyonlands National Park is surrounded on all sides by proposed BLM wildlands whose scenic wonders, recreational opportunities, and ecological values easily equal or surpass those of adjoining park lands. For river runners, the proposed Goldbar Canyon, Goosenecks, Labyrinth Canyon, and Dark Canyon BLM wilderness areas are the front and back doors to Canyonlands National Park. Over 70 percent of the half-million acres of BLM roadless lands surrounding Canyonlands National Park would be opened to development by H.R.1745/S.884. Previous development proposals for this region have included a nuclear waste dump and railroad, a dam on the Green River in Labyrinth Canyon, and a pipeline and roads associated with a proposed new potash solution mining complex.

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