Utah's Redrock WildernessWe have allowed too much land to be exploited. It is time to wake up and take responsibility for the lands in which we live. Life on this planet is already in danger of passing into a critical zone, and we are leaving our children a legacy in which they cannot maintain a viable future. Is this really how we give thanks for all the wonderful gifts this planet offers us? Such a waste is beyond understanding. I am not willing to allow such a travesty if it is within my power to avert this terrible injustice to the natural world in which we have the honor to be a part of.
 
The Bush Administration left office nearly a year ago, but its “no more wilderness” policy remains in effect.
 
We need your help to overturn this disastrous approach, which continues to jeopardize Utah’s Redrock Wilderness and other natural treasures.
 
Please take action right now and tell Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to lift the Bush-era ban on protecting wilderness-quality lands from harmful oil and gas drilling.
 
NRDC activists like us have helped stop the Bush Administration from putting drill rigs on the doorstep of two Utah national parks and a national monument.
 
But even now, the Bureau of Land Management lacks the power to place these and other pristine expanses of Redrock country off limits to destructive oil and gas development and off-road vehicle use because of the “no more wilderness” policy.
 
Recently, 89 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Secretary Salazar asking him to overturn this shortsighted restriction.
 
Please take action right now and join them in speaking out to safeguard Utah’s wilderness-quality lands from oil and gas drilling until these areas are permanently protected by Congress. Thank you for helping to protect America’s Redrock Wilderness.
 

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