Save Our Canyons records

Collection

Identifier: ACCN 2634

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Save Our Canyons (SOC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1972 in response to growing threats to natural spaces along the Wasatch Front. The Save Our Canyons records (1955-2013) contain the committee’s organizational records, correspondence, community outreach materials, research, and professional materials from its longtime president Gale Dick, as well as master plans and environmental impact statements from ski resorts (Alta, Snowbird, Solitude, Brighton, and Snowbasin) and other developments in Utah’s canyons. SOC worked closely with the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Bid and Organizing Committees to minimize the games’ environmental impact. Material regarding these efforts includes correspondence, research, news clippings, press kits, and environmental impact statements. Also included in the Save Our Canyons records are court documents from lawsuits involving the committee in regard to the Wasatch Powderbird Guides, ski resort chair lifts (Alta, Snowbird, Snowbasin), and Snowbird’s Master Development Plan.

Dates

1955-2013

Creator

Citizens’ Committee to Save Our Canyons (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

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 Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical / Historical

Save Our Canyons is a non-profit organization founded in 1972 in response to growing threats to natural spaces along the Wasatch Front. Save Our Canyons has been instrumental in the protection of various public lands in Utah, and worked closely with the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Bid and Organizing Committees to keep the games away from sensitive areas of Utah’s wilderness. Save Our Canyons has been active in promoting more protective environmental legislation for Utah’s wild spaces, and has been vocal in debate surrounding issues such as heli-skiing, land exchanges, inter-resort transportation, The committee has worked with many other conservation and outdoor recreation groups to regulate construction developments in the canyons and to ensure Utah’s natural spaces remain protected, for the wildlife within to flourish and the public to enjoy.

Extent

83.5 Linear Feet (199 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Save Our Canyons records (1955-2013) contain administrative materials, correspondence, community outreach materials, court records, and news clippings pertaining to the committee’s efforts to promote environmental conservation and protect natural spaces along the Wasatch Front. Save Our Canyons (SOC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1972 in response to growing threats to natural spaces along the Wasatch Front.

Arrangement

Arranged in eight series: 1: Administrative materials; 2: Correspondence; 3: Financial records; 4: Legal materials; 5: Subject files; 6: Miscellaneous materials.

Series 6: Subject files is arranged alphabetically by subject. Each subject arranged chronologically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Gale Dick.

Separated Materials

See also the Save Our Canyons audio collection (A0040) in the Multimedia Division of Special Collections. USB drive transferred to the Digital Library.