Overview
America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act would designate roughly 9.4 million acres of Bureau of Land Management Land (BLM) public land in Utah as wilderness under the Wilderness Act of 1964. The legislation would protect well known landscapes, like the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, as well as lesser known places like those BLM lands outside Zion National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and Arches National Park. There is no landscape on earth like Utah's canyon country and deserts and nowhere else in the lower 48 can such intact desert wilderness be found. The wilderness proposal in America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act was developed over the past two decades by citizens, volunteers, and conservationists and has been extensively researched, field checked, and documented.