Since our Rural Utah Project days, Stewardship Utah has worked in local elections and rural democracy to protect our public lands. It is a proven strategy, and now as 2025 municipal elections near, we need your help as we face down new threats.
Gondola threat: $1.4B project in Little Cottonwood Canyon jeopardizes water, habitat, and access, serving only a small number of corporate interests.
Highway risk: The Northern Corridor highway near St.George would slice through Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, a critical Mojave Desert habitat in Utah.
Red Cliffs Zone 6 danger: SITLA (the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration) can still sell or develop 3,341 acres of this wild area, as its current designation isn’t permanent.
Image of a climber enjoying the world class bouldering in Moe's Valley.
How Stewardship Utah can help protect these lands:
We blend public lands defense with rural democracy work, honed from our Rural Utah Project work alongside the Navajo Nation that helped protect Bears Ears.
We unite unlikely allies, Tribal governments, rural farmers, westside families, and recreation advocates.
Local elections expertise from our days as O2 Utah, boosting local leaders who are crucial in supporting or opposing development, like what we are seeing now.
Our goal: $10,000 by August 29th to fight for these public lands on every front. Every dollar raised will help us to build coalitions of support, support pro-public lands candidates on the ground in the upcoming election, and build our policy platform that enshrines protections for these places for future generations.
