Don B
formerly rebarguy
- Location
- Southern Utah
- These are the area that are in the bill to be proposed to be protected wilderness area in Moab. There are obviously several other areas included in the bill that are not listed below.
- Does anyone have a map of the proposed areas to be made protected wilderness? I would be interested to see what is in the bill via a map.
- (1) Arches Adjacent (approximately 12,000 acres).
- (2) Beaver Creek (approximately 41,000 acres).
- (3) Behind the Rocks and Hunters Canyon (approximately 22,000 acres).(4) Big Triangle (approximately 20,000 acres).
- (5) Coyote Wash (approximately 28,000 acres).
- (6) Dome Plateau-Professor Valley (approximately 35,000 acres).
- (7) Fisher Towers (approximately 18,000 acres).
- (8) Goldbar Canyon (approximately 9,000 acres).
- (9) Granite Creek (approximately 5,000 acres).
- (10) Mary Jane Canyon (approximately 25,000 acres).
- (11) Mill Creek (approximately 14,000 acres).
- (12) Porcupine Rim and Morning Glory (approximately 20,000 acres).
- (13) Renegade Point (approximately 6,600 acres).
- (14) Westwater Canyon (approximately 37,000 acres).
- (15) Yellow Bird (approximately 4,200 acres).
This is just a tiny area of the 9.4 million acres in the bill. If you look at the map, most of Kane County, Garfield County, Wayne and Emery Counties would be wilderness. The map is also very vague. The language in the bill says that the actual map and bounderies of the wilderness areas will be done after the bill passes.
You can see the map on SUWA's website
Very scary.
If this bill doesn't get past this commitee, please don't think we have won and stop fighting it. It will come back to haunt us.