Want to show your support? Here's what you can do.
When you register for Run the Red, you are signing up for more than just a race. You are showing land managers, decision makers, and the people of Wyoming that this is a landscape worth protecting, for future generations to experience and be inspired by. Right now, there is a coalition of diverse interests, called Citizens for the Red Desert, working toward building home-grown congressional legislation, representing Wyoming interests, for areas of the Red Desert. They are advocates of Tribal Nations, hunters, hikers, birders, history buffs, conservationists, ORV users, tourists, people of faith, rock hounds, horse and bike riders, union workers, naturalists, photographers, campers, business owners, members of the public, and more. Citizens for the Red Desert (CfRD) are united in their love for this landscape and in their desire to sustain what makes the Red Desert special — for future generations.
We are asking all runners, volunteers, and members of the public to help our efforts to protect this area by telling your desert story here. Your personal testimony will be shared with elected officials as we build support for future legislation.
For your comments to have the biggest impact, please include your personal experience in this landscape, your connection to the desert, and why you believe the Red Desert deserves protection.
This is an opportunity to help shape this landscape's future and to be a part of a meaningful Wyoming grassroots campaign. It helps ensure that this landscape, with its many amazing Wyoming and national values, will endure for years to come.
BACKGROUND ABOUT THE DESERT
Wyoming's Northern Red Desert is a vast, unfenced area of public lands made up of wild areas, buttes, desert mountains, colorful badlands, sand dunes, and other important lands connecting vital wildlife habitat for western Wyoming. The area is also home to important Indigenous cultural sites like the White Mountain petroglyphs, Boars Tusk, historic trails like the Oregon Trail and Pony Express route, the world's longest mule deer migration, a rare desert elk herd, and the largest concentration of Greater sage-grouse in the West. Protect this landscape by endorsing Citizens for the Red Desert with a personal testimony!
By completing this form, we will add you to the Citizens for the Red Desert email list and let you know of future opportunities to experience the Desert and speak up for securing its future!