The Conservation Alliance

The Citizens' Committee to Save Our Canyons was founded in 1972 in response to the threat of urbanization of the Wasatch Mountains just outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. We worked hard and successfully for wilderness designation of the Lone Peak, Twin Peaks, and Mt. Olympus Wilderness Areas in the Wasatch. Save Our Canyons, along with other local environmental groups, was instrumental in getting Salt Lake County to formulate and adopt a Canyons Master Plan to guide the granting of building permits on both public and private land in the canyons. This Master Plan, adopted in 1989, is now in the process of revision. Using all available avenues for public input, we have been participants in a wide variety of controversies through the years: heli-skiing conflicts, the perpetual pressures from commercial ski resorts for more development, private land construction projects, trailhead access to public lands, location and size of sewer lines in the Wasatch canyons, avalanche control techniques and public transportation into the canyons.

Save Our Canyons is currently working on expanding Wasatch Wilderness by an additional 28,000 acres.