July 2019
Have you been to Utah?
Have you visited Utah National Parks, BLM/Bureau of Land Management Lands or other U.S. public lands in Utah? If yes, you have a special opportunity below.
If not, take a look at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance webpage to understand why this incredible landscape, fragile dessert and range, sacred and archaeological heritage sites need your help now.
Plans to re-introduce the America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act (ARRWA) in the U.S. Congress are moving forward. Senator Dick Durban and Representative Alan Lowenthal are sponsors. We need your help to tell Representative Darin LaHood why it is important that he co-sponsor ARRWA. This legislation was first introduced in 1989. Rep. Ray LaHood stepped up to be a co-sponsor in 2007. We need Rep. Darin LaHood to recognize the importance of protecting these public lands from drilling, mining, off-road vehicle use and other destruction. Look at this map see how ARRWA will protect federal lands around our National Parks, including Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Glen Canyon Recreation Area and Zion.
Wilderness designation is the essential protection for these rare and fragile areas. All the lands in ARRWA are owned by the American public and are our National legacy for generations to come. They all have been evaluated and have significant features meriting wilderness protection. As climate change impacts increase, wilderness designation of these last wild places is even more essential to ensure ecosystem durability and species adaptation.
Whether or not you have visited Utah, please write a letter to Rep. LaHood and ask him to co-sponsor the America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act. Send him a photo! Explain why you as an Illinois resident want these lands protected and why he has an important role to see this is done.
Write to:
Rep. Darin LaHood
100 NE Monroe St., Rm. 100
Peoria, IL 61602