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Recreation Access & Transportation

Save Our Canyons values the diverse, year round recreational access that is enjoyed by a growing number of visitors and locals alike. Given the realities and subsequent challenges of a population that is forecasted to increase in the coming years, the Wasatch Canyons will be the focus of regional transportation planning…
Land Use Planning

Save Our Canyons is dedicated to protecting the wildness and beauty of the Wasatch Mountains, canyons, and foothills — we do this in a variety of ways, one of which is land use planning. The Wasatch Range is comprised of a patchwork of land ownership and management. Engaging Federal, State,…
Watershed Protections

Over 60% of the water used by residents of the Salt Lake Valley comes from canyons in the Wasatch Mountains. Protecting the watershed resources of the Wasatch Range not only protects the aesthetic and scenic value of these lakes and rivers, but ensures a healthy future for growing populations in…
Public Land Protection

One of the first rules of backcountry safety is that you don’t go it alone. It’s not just the credo for backcountry safety, it’s also how you protect the backcountry. You don’t go it alone, it requires a community. Four decades ago a few hikers, climbers, scientists, mothers and fathers…
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…
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Op-Ed: Mountain Accord Is Utahns’ Chance to Shape the Future by Carl Fisher

Your voice matters! Mountain Accord comment period closes MAY 1, 2015. Send comments to comment@mountainaccord.com – Edit: the comment period is now closed. This post remains for archival purposes. By Carl Fisher, Executive Director of Save Our Canyons This past week, both chambers of Congress passed a non-binding budget resolution…
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 https://saveourcanyons.org/2014/10/13/1696/ 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…
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…