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Earth Day
By John Worlock, Member of Save Our Canyons Monday, April 22 will be the 49th Anniversary of Earth Day, and we hope you have some plans for that celebration. My personal plan is to take a lawn chair and perhaps an umbrella and go sit where I can listen…
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SOCKids and George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation
Our Wasatch Wilderness Stewardship and Education Project along with Save Our Canyons Kids helps to connect people to nature and restores our public lands. Our goal is to provide participants of these programs with the information and tools needed that can be applied at home to help create a long-term…
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Advocacy Corner: How to Write a Letter to the Editor or An Op-Ed
The threats to the Wasatch, to our watersheds, to the places that inspire our rapidly growing communities and the generations that will surely follow, are intense, complex, and need attention. What they need perhaps most of all is unity. We can show unity in a variety of ways by: attending…
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EIS for UTA’s plans for Little Cottonwood Canyon Road
By John Worlock, Member of Save Our Canyons We have an important opportunity, for the next few weeks, to help the Utah Department of Transportation as they prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for what they call the Little Cottonwood Canyon Project. Until May 3rd, we are invited to comment…
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Natural Resources Management Act of 2019
By John Worlock, Member of Save Our Canyons For a few weeks we’ve been celebrating the passage of the Natural Resources Management Act of 2019, and we expect to be celebrating its provisions for many years to come. It is probably the most important environmental legislation in half a century.…
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Another Miracle in Washington, DC
By John Worlock, Member of Save Our Canyons Can you believe it? We suddenly have more good news from Washington, following two years of assaults on the natural environment by the government. A very hard couple of years. So now, let’s Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative, Latch…
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Central Wasatch Visitor Study
Save Our Canyons partnered with the US Forest Service and Salt Lake City to undertake the Central Wasatch Visitor Study (CWVS). It involved hundreds of volunteers and lasted for a full year, in order to account for the strong seasonal variations in recreational styles. The work was overseen by Professor…
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A Miracle in the US Senate
By John Worlock, Member of Save Our Canyons We’re celebrating the unexpected passage in the US Senate last week of an omnibus bill that is applauded by a variety conservationists. It offers, for example, the permanent reauthorization of the national Land and Water Conservation Fund, whose expiration last autumn, we…
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Support Save Our Canyons!
Since 1972, Save Our Canyons has been dedicated to protecting the wildness and beauty of the Wasatch mountains, canyons and foothills. We do this through a variety of ways — working on land use ordinances, partnering to purchase lands, engaging in land planning processes, and responding to proposals confronting the Wasatch.…
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Photo and Website Credits
One of the most powerful ways of us to convey our mission of protecting the wildness and beauty of the Wasatch Mountains is through photography. We have been lucky enough to partner or be tagged during these artists’ adventures. Thank you to everyone that has donated, shared, or sent us…
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Jayme Blakesley
Board Member Jayme Blakesley grew up in Millcreek with Mt. Olympus as the backdrop of his youth. After completing a degree in Philosophy at Brigham Young University, falling in love, and graduating law school at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Jayme traded his beloved mountains for…