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Conserving Working Lands in the Sagebrush Sea

Conservation easements help keep ranching, wildlife habitat and open space connected.

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Buffalo Ranch Joins Shorelands Preserve

New acquisition protects habitat along Great Salt Lake

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Building Future Indigenous Conservation Leaders

A spotlight on the NATURE program

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Fire on the Ground

Discover how controlled burning and cultural fire help restore healthy western dry forests.

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Read the Spring 2026 Newsletter

Updates from the Utah Chapter.

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Read the 2025 Chapter Update

Learn more about our work over the past year.

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Our Conservation Priorities Across the West

Discover how we're collaborating with our TNC colleagues and partners across the western U.S. and Canada to advance conservation on a transformative scale.

Sagebrush Sea

The Nature Conservancy is working across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon to protect this iconic western landscape, one of the largest natural systems in North America.

Colorado River Basin

The Nature Conservancy is working to protect the Colorado River Basin, which provides water, food, recreation and energy for more than 40 million people.

Western Dry Forests

Discover how we’re catalyzing restoration across the western U.S.

Climate and Renewable Energy

To accelerate a conservation-minded transition away from fossil fuels, TNC envisions the development of a more flexible and responsive western energy grid based on renewable energy sources shared across state boundaries and deployed to avoid impacts to biodiversity-rich landscapes.
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Nature Lab Virtual Field Trip

Take a virtual journey to Utah's Great Salt Lake—which is saltier than the ocean—to find out how this extreme habitat supports an incredible diversity of life and how we can protect it for the future.

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Protecting the Heart of Canyon Country

For more than half a century, Heidi Redd has worked to protect the Dugout Ranch—a 5,200-acre oasis on the southern edge of Canyonlands National Park in Utah.

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More stories from Utah

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Will We Save the Great Salt Lake?

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A Cowgirl’s Conservation Journey—a New Book by Heidi Redd & TNC

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The Nature Conservancy’s Impact in Utah

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Wings and Water: Wetlands Education Program

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Field of Dreams

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Corporate Alliance for the Environment

Utah businesses see the benefit and importance of saving our special natural areas.

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See the Places We Protect in Your Community

Since 1984, The Nature Conservancy in Utah has helped to protect more than 1 million acres of public and private land throughout the state, for plants, animals and people.

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