Save Our Canyons is a non-profit organization that is "dedicated to protecting the beauty and wildness of the Wasatch canyons, mountains, and foothills". The organization educates the public and furthers the goals of protecting the natural environments around Salt Lake City, raises awareness on issues of concern, does the effort to get citizens actively involved in public land issues, while working with local government entities. 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. The opening of Snowbird Ski Resort along with its plans for tramways accessing satellite villages throughout the Wasatch, catalyzed the movement to protect the remainder of this beautiful area in its natural state.
The Save Our Canyons audio collection consists of 9 born digital audio files that contain the Wasatch Environmental Updates by the Save Our Canyons, and other information regarding the environment around the Wasatch area. This collection is digital.
Materials are mostly arranged chronologically.
Audio-visual materials can be fragile and require specialized equipment to play back. For this reason, access to audio-visual materials is provided through digital copies, and it might take longer to provide access to items that are not yet digitized. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law, condition of the material, or by donor.
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's
Donated by Gale Dick, co-founder of Save Our Canyons, in 2014.
Interview with former Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbit about his book, Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America.
Part of the Wasatch Environmental Updates sponsored by Save Our Canyons; with information about environment related bills in Utah.
Part of the Wasatch Environmental Updates; with information about dirt bikers, ATV riders, and others in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
Part of the Wasatch Environmental Updates; with information about Powder Mountain becoming a new town in Weber County.
Part of the Wasatch Environmental Updates; with information about the Save Our Canyon sister organization in Utah County, Rock Canyon Preservation Alliance.
Part of the Wasatch Environmental Updates; with information about mountain bikes and its riders on trails and public lands.
Part of the Wasatch Environmental Updates; with information about Snowbird Resort's proposal of a mountain coaster down Mount Superior.
Thinking Aloud with Steven Thomsen, from the BYU Communication Department. About the world of print ads and the visual process used to digest them.