An American Icon: Utah's Red Rock Canyonlands

The River Prairie Group will co-host a program entitled “Wild Utah: America’s Red Rock Wilderness” on Thursday, October 3, at 7:00pm, at the Glen Ellyn History Center. The speaker will be Clayton Daughenbaugh, conservation organizer with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Chair of the Sierra Club’s Wildlands and Wilderness Team.

The program includes a short film, “Wild Utah”. This award-winning 15-minute journey through red rock splendor motivates viewers to participate in the movement to protect these unique and threatened public lands.

America’s red rock wilderness draws pilgrims from around the world.  It is the largest network of undesignated wilderness lands remaining in the lower 48 states. President Trump is threatening to eliminate large portions of Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, and his carbon-fueled “energy dominance” policy is threatening these wild lands and the climate.

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Sierra Club, and their partners in the Utah Wilderness Coalition seek to gain local support for the “Citizens’ Proposal” to protect wilderness areas in Utah’s red rock canyonlands. Comprehensive legislation is pending in Congress.