Utah's Canyon Country is for many of us an escape from our other world.

Unfortunately, the environmental politics of the canyon lands are difficult. We now have protection for great parks like Arches and Canyonlands because concerned citizens took action on our behalf in the past. Now it's our turn.

Presently, there are battles over other equally spectacular public canyon lands that don't yet enjoy protection as parks.

If you want to know more about the issues, try the articles below. Granted, they represent one perspective, but surely those of us who love and who have benefited spiritually from our journeys through slickrock country can afford to examine that perspective with an open mind.

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Personal Practice:

• Cryptobiotic Soil: It's Alive - Don't damage it .
• Cultural Site Etiquette .
• Personal Practice : Making minimal impact.

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Environmental Issues from Different Sources:

• The battle for Utah Wilderness by Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
• Utah: The West's New Battleground from Cyberwest Magazine
• Wilderness at the Edge: by Pulitzer Prize Winner and Utah Native Wallace Stegner
• A National Treasure Threatened

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Environmental Organizations:

• The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
• Sierra Club-Utah Chapter

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What you can do to Help:

• Guidelines from the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance .
• Better World Zine guidelines .

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Periodicals Focused on Evironmental Issues in the West:

• The Canyon Country Zephyr . A local periodical, the Zephyr often carries articles expressing a concern for the environment.
• High Country News : A Western Newsletter focused on Environmental Issues.

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Other Approaches and General Ecological Information:

• Nature Conservancy: The Matheson Wetland preserve .
• International Arid Lands Consortium .