UTAH'S REDROCK WILDERNESS:
A NATIONAL TREASURE THREATENED

"NEVER IN MY MEMORY HAVE SO MANY HAD SO LITTLE INFLUENCE ON THEIR OWN ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES. NEVER HAS THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS NOT BEEN HEARD, AND NEVER HAS OUR PRECIOUS SENSE OF COMMUNITY BEEN MORE AT RISK."

- Karen Sheperd, former Member of Congress, UT-2

Parunuweap Canyon, Campsite along bank of East Ford of Virgin River

© JAMES KAY

GREATER ZION. The Greater Zion area offers a stunning landscape of sinuous narrow canyons, lush riparian areas and expansive Navajo sandstone slickrock domes. H.R.1745/S. 884 would leave open to development nearly three-quarters of the 130,000 acres of roadless BLM land contiguous to Zion National Park. Twelve of fifteen roadless units in this region are omitted in their entirety from the bill. And within two of the three areas it would designate as wilderness, the bill would specifically authorize the future construction of dams, reservoirs, pipelines, and roads associated with water development.

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