Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

This approximately 100,000-acre wilderness area is located roughly fifty miles west of Salt Lake City and was established in January 2006.

[5] SUWA also participated in the Washington County land bill, which designated approximately 256,000 acres of wilderness in southwestern Utah when it passed in 2009.

Originally introduced by Senator Bob Bennet in 2006, early versions of the Washington County land bill failed to pass in two congresses due to opposition from SUWA and the Utah Wilderness Coalition.

[6] On May 8, 2012, SUWA and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced an agreement concerning a proposed oil and gas development project in eastern Utah.

SUWA had worked to improve earlier versions of the bill that had failed to protect parts of Labyrinth Canyon and Muddy Creek.