CLOSED : Wrong Place For a Highway - Save Red Cliffs Desert Reserve and National Conservation Area

This generation must protect the integrity of the Red Cliffs Preserve. Once a road is constructed, more development invariably follows. It's not just about the tortoise; it's about the integrity of the area!

Protect our open space, we all need it to survive.

I frequent the St. George area and it would devastating to this beautiful place to have a highway and additional development here.

We are committed to not destroying our natural spaces

Thank you for you efforts. I offer my full support!!!

Agreements made should be agreements honored. No new roads in Red Cliffs. Honor the 1995 Habitat Conservation Plan and don't allow local development to override reason and honor.

I’m not a St. George resident, but I am a Utah resident, and I spend a lot of time in St. George. I’m adamantly against the proposed northern corridor. Not only will it ruin a beautiful natural area, but will only serve as a stepping stone to further development like houses and businesses. DO NOT PUT THIS THROUGH!!

The Northern Corridor Highway is bad policy and bad science combined together to make a bad road that will do more damage than good.

NCH as proposed through the reserve will do nothing to ease congestion in existing traffic choke points in town. Anyone who sits through three traffic light changes today at key intersections on River Road, Telegraph St, 1000 East, I15 - St George Ave interchange are just some, should know that. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the reason, people drive to places to conduct their business and take the shortest route. A road through nowhere will not change people’s need to drive to business centers in town and existing congestions won’t be solved. The immediate problem this town needs to solve is how to deal with existing choke points and money should be spent there, not on a road ‘out there’. Proponents of the road, aside from their objective to build on what is now protected lands by chipping away at the reserve, have created a narrative that makes it sound like they have a good proposal to solve future East West traffic while they are totally missing the traffic choke problems of today. NCH alternatives 4&5 would have gone a long way addressing some of the major existing choke points around 1000E, I15-St George Ave, without impact to the reserve, but without giving any good reason that alternative was ignored.

Save this beautiful land. Cannot be replaced.

Thanks Pierce!

There are better alternatives to this!!

The Northern Corridor threatens tortoises, wild lands, and the scenery that makes southern Utah great.

This highway must not be built through Red Cliffs.

Conserve the conservation area! Go around it

It can never be replaced! Save the tortoise Reserve!

I spend much of my time in the reserve, and am awed that we have such a treasure in our backyard. We should be protecting the places that make Southern Utah amazing, rather than building through them.

No Northern corridor highway. Please protect the land for our future generation so they may enjoy the beautiful natural land that is surrounding St. George, Ut. Thanks.

Keep open spaces open. It's not worth permanently damaging areas like this one just for the sake of convenience.

Santa Clara Resident