Moab: Nature

• Utah Forest Wilderness (www.utahforests.org) - review
  Web site provides detailed descriptions of forested areas in Utah. The descriptions include geology, ecosystem, and threats to the area.
• Plateau Restoration (www.plateaurestoration.org) - review
  Moab's Center for Ecological Restoration and Outdoor Education. The organization offers landscaping and restoration services and is a source for native plants and seeds.
• Sierra Club Utah (utah.sierraclub.org)
  The Glen Canyon chapter of the Sierra Club has contacts and information on Sierra Club activities in Southern Utah.
• Arches National Park (www.arches.national-park.com)
  A private site with information on Arches National Park.
• Canyonlands National Park (www.canyonlands.national-park.com)
  A site with information about Canyonlands National Park
• FourCornersSW.com (www.fourcornerssw.com)
  A road log of the Four Corners area. Has information on drives through Bluff, Utah, Gallup, NM and other areas south.
• Glen Canyon Institute (www.glencanyon.org)
  The Glen Canyon Institute?s mission is to provide leadership toward restoration of a free flowing Colorado River through Glen Canyon and Grand Canyon. Find out why we should decommission Glen Canyon Dam.
• Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (www.suwa.org) - review
  An active advocacy group, the goal of SUWA is to protect Utah's remaining nine million acres of wild desert lands - lands owned by the American public and administered on our behalf by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
• Highway Robbery (www.highway-robbery.org)
  A coalition against the loophools in RS2477 that will allow counties to build roads through parks and treasured lands.
• Nature Conservancy :: Scott M. Matheson Wetlands Preserve (nature.org) - review
  The Nature Conservancy Page on the Scott M Matheson Wetland Preserve list hours of operations and events.
• Save Utah's Redrock Wilderness (www.savebiogems.org)
  This page by Save Bio Gems asks for people to send a letter to Secretary Gale A. Norton in opposition to current efforts to reduce the amount of wilderness area in Southern Utah.
• Birding in Grand County, Utah (www.utahbirds.org) - review
  Utah Birds reports on birding activities throughout the state of Utah, including this page on activities in Grand County.
• Drain It (www.drainit.org) - review
  It was a mistake to begin with. The Glenn Canyon damn had a remarkably short expected life span. Drain It wishes to do the right thing and drain Lake Powell now and start the restoration of the canyon.
• Living Rivers Campaigns (www.livingrivers.org) - review
  The Living Rivers Campaigns seeks to preserve and restore the Colorado River.
• Wildland Scapes (www.reveg.org) - review
  Wildland Scapes, LLC (WLS) is an ecological restoration and revegetation service company located in the heart of the Colorado Plateau in Moab, Utah.
• Biological Soil Crust (www.soilcrust.org) - review
  A site concerned with the study of biological soil crusts which form in desert areas. The crusts are also known as cryptogamic, microbiotic, cryptobiotic, and microphytic crusts.
• Utah Wilderness Coalition (www.uwcoalition.org) - review
  The Utah Wilderness Coalition seeks to protect Utah's wild lands.
• Great Backyard Bird Count: (gbbc.birdsource.org)
  Site shows totals of the annual great backyard bird count.