Moab: Nature
You saw it, now help preserve it. The desert is harsh environment, but in many ways it is quite fragile. You can only develop it once. These are links to organizations with information on the environment, and use of the land.
- 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.
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