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The Grinch Who Stole Grizzly

Every Utahn down in the valley loved the Wasatch a lot, the Grinch up at Alta just wanted to develop the spot! The Grinch hated people who enjoyed the mountains for free, preferring each person pay him a fee. Now, please don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason,…
West of Eden: Nordic Valley Proposes Big Changes (Master Development Plan)

Currently, Nordic Valley operates as a small, niche ski area on 140 acres. Recently, however, the resort’s new owners, Mountain Capital Partners, announced that they will be seeking a massive expansion including a 4.3 mile gondola, 10 new lifts and large scale condo development. All told, the expansion would spill…
Introduction of the NCRA, but What About Grizzly Gulch?

Last night, the Central Wasatch Commission supported the introduction of legislation that would protect nearly 80,000 acres of land in the Central Wasatch Mountains! We worked incredibly hard with various interests from property owners, recreational interests, ski areas, and land managers under the leadership of the Central Wasatch Commission to…
Autumn Paean

By Gale Dick, Co-Founder of Save Our Canyons Here is a tribute to Autumn in the Wasatch, written by Gale Dick, the late and beloved co-founder of Save Our Canyons. We wish we had it recorded in Gale’s voice, but we’ll give it our best shot. “Many Utahns believe that…
#KeepGrizzlyWild

Save Our Canyons and conservation and recreation allies have tried negotiating with Alta, we’ve tried trusting and verifying, but now in the final moments, Alta is trying to change the rules. They’re pulling land off the table, Grizzly Gulch, land that’s been beloved by the public long before it was…
Op-Ed: Mountain Accord Is Utahns’ Chance to Shape the Future by Carl Fisher

By Carl Fisher, Executive Director of Save Our Canyons This past week, both chambers of Congress passed a non-binding budget resolution to sell or give away all our public lands other than national parks and monuments. Let’s also not forget that our local congressional delegation opted to pursue the sale…
Mountain Accord; The Most Critical Issues Are Looming for the Wasatch Mountains

By Carl Fisher To fully understand and appreciate the Mountain Accord process, you have to understand and appreciate the history of conflict that brought us to this place in time, what in essence convened the Mountain Accord. Too much time and energy has recently been spent worrying about a train…
Mountain Accord Update; Cottonwood Canyon Task Force Negotiations

For the past seven weeks, Save Our Canyons has been engaged in a negotiation to figure out our future participation in the Mountain Accord process. As I listened to discussions at our Board Retreat in November, I began to realize there was little, if any good, coming out of the…
Mountain Accord

By John Worlock, Member, Save Our Canyons Board of Directors This is a late wake-up call for lovers of the beauty and the tranquility of the Central Wasatch Mountains. Those foothills, peaks and canyons have stood there, majestically, for much longer than people, including the original human inhabitants, have been here,…
Save Our Canyons “Idealized Transportation” Concept

The Transportation System Group (TSG), one of four system groups in the Mountain Accord Program, has met on five occasions. The TSG has reviewed and approved a document titled “Existing Conditions & Future Trendlines of the Transportation System.” The TSG has also developed and approved: (1). a Transportation Vision Statement…