Utah Wilderness Review

	Acreage	Units	% of BLM Lands in Utah
Statewide (BLM Lands Initially Inventoried)	20,064,748	871	91%
Intensive Inventory Areas (As a result of eliminating areas that obviously and clearly lacked wilderness character)		169	25%
Wilderness Study Areas (as a result of Intensive Inventory Findings)		95	15%
DOI's 1991 Wilderness Recommendation		69	9%

Additional Information:
Approximately 127,700 acres of designated wilderness are administered by the BLM in Utah. Of that, approximately 100,000 acres were designated in January 2006 as the Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area by the Utah Test and Training Range Protection Act. Approximately 22,600 acres were designated wilderness as part of the 1984 Wilderness Act for Arizona. This Act established wilderness on approximately 20,000 acres in Paria Canyon in Utah and approximately 2,600 acres in the Beaver Dam Mountains in Utah. The Colorado Wilderness Act of 1999 established the approximately 5,100 acres of the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness in Utah. Also, BLM in 1993 identified a new WSA, Scotts Basin, at 6,990 acres.

Remaining Steps:
Congress has received BLM's wilderness recommendation from the Secretary of the Interior and the President.  In the legislative phase of the wilderness review, there is no deadline or timetable for Congress to act; only Congress can designate areas as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System