Causes: Environment

Mission: Founded in 1983, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance builds strong and lasting public support for wilderness preservation by focusing its attention on grassroots activists and public outreach campaigns. By building personal relationships and empowering citizens who love Utah''s wild lands, we have built a movement that has endured for over twenty years. Our allegiance of fiercely loyal defenders of Utah wilderness is reflected in our continued success: the annual increase of activists, the number of anti-wilderness proposals defeated, and the record support obtained for America''s Redrock Wilderness Act.

Programs: SUWA's two major campaigns are to: 1) build grassroots and congressional support for positive wilderness legislation, and 2) defend Utah's wilderness-quality public lands from threats, including off-road vehicles, R. S. 2477 "ghost" road claims, and oil and gas exploration and development.