Colorado Plateau

The Colorado Plateau stretches south and west of the Rocky Mountains, abutting mountains on the north and east and ending in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west. The Grand Canyon is carved out of its southwestern corner. The spectacular forests and red rock country comprise immense lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Park Service. This area is all too often exploited by private interests such as grazing,  mining, oil & gas, logging and off-highway vehicle use. The keystone wildlife species and natural process that once regulated these majestic ecosystems are vanishing rapidly.

WildEarth Guardians is working with local, regional and national conservation organizations to protect and restore these landscapes, their plants and wildlife as well as critical natural processes such as wildland fire.

Our priorities include safeguarding the Utah prairie dog and other imperiled creatures of the Colorado Plateau as well as curtailing logging and oil and gas development from the Wasatch Mountains to the north rim of the Grand Canyon.