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Red Rock Country, Utah, USADesignation of wilderness (from‘wild lands’)Resource Extraction- sale of public lands
 
Pressure from recreationactivities- off roadingPolitical management/ impact
 
National legislation- WildernessAct 1964- USAEnvironmental quality-conservation
 
National Parks- Zion
No wilderness area in the lower 48 states has asmuch unprotected public land as southern Utah'sredrock country, which is surrounded by eightnational parks and monuments.
Threatened by:
Oil and gas development,off-road vehicles, coal mining, logging,grazing
 The Sierra Club'sUtah WildlandsCampaign isbuildingcongressionalsupport for thepassage of America's RedrockWilderness Act . The Act would givewildernessdesignation tomore than 9 millionacres of federalpublic land insouthern Utah,protecting themforever. An interimgoal is to protectUtah's remainingwildlands fromdevelopment andbad legislation thatwould damage thewildernesscharacteristics of the land and renderit ineligible for thehighest form of protection
On January 19, theday before leavingoffice, the Bushadministration plans to issue oil andgas leases onsome of Utah's --and America's --most fragilelandscapes.
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