Plunge pools, waterfalls, and interesting rock formations abound in Dominguez Canyon. photo ©

Located 20 miles southeast of Grand Junction, the Dominguez Escalante National Conservation Area occupies an extremely wide elevation range with excellent biologic and topographical diversity. The area includes important wildlife species, extensive recreational opportunities, and unique archaeological wonders. Help us make sure that these diverse resources and values get rightfully protected in the Bureau of Land Management’s upcoming Resource Management Plan for the area by sending the NCA manager a letter below.

Talking points for your letter:

• Conduct a wilderness inventory and protection plan for all NCA lands, including Dominguez North Citizens’ Wilderness Proposal and the roadless lands southwest of the current wilderness on the benches above Escalante Creek;
• Keep the Dominquez Canyon Wilderness area as wild as possible and re-wild other areas where needed.  Keep parking facilities, roads, trailheads, and trail networks to the absolute minimum necessary to protect the Wilderness;
• Limit off-road vehicle use in the NCA to designated routes, as required by Congress, and limit those routes to the essential minimum.
• Inventory and protect all the cultural, archaeological, natural, scientific, recreational, wilderness, and wildlife values that Congress listed as important resources within the NCA. 
• Study streams  for Wild and Scenic Rivers Act suitability and establish strong management provisions for stream flow and stream corridors;

We will print out and deliver your letter to BLM by October 1st.