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Kids running on a boardwalk at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands preserve.
GSL Shorelands Preserve Colte and Charlianne Rindlesbach at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve, Utah. © Ian Shive
A group of birds on a lake with a pretty sunset in the distance.
A vast oasis A sunset at the Great Salt Lake in 2020 looking northwest from the Antelope Island Causeway, with several species of ducks and eared grebes in the foreground. © 2020 Mary Anne Karren
A kestrel bird balancing on a tree branch and cleaning its feathers.
Kestrel A kestrel preening on a snowy branch. © Robert Palmer/TNC Photo Contest 2022

The Kestrel Cam is back!

Every spring, you can watch kestrel chicks grow up in real time alongside their harried parents thanks to the live cam mounted on a nest box at The Nature Conservancy’s Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve in Utah.

Click here to watch live!

Aerial view of dense tropical forest canopy.

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Nature Is Common Ground—and Common Sense

The Nature Conservancy remains committed to creating a world where everyone thrives alongside nature for generations to come, protecting and preserving nature.

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Nature Lab Virtual Fieldtrip Take a virtual journey to Utah's Great Salt Lake–which is saltier than the ocean–to find out how this extreme habitat supports an incredible diversity of life, and how we can protect it for the future.
Aerial view of Colorado Plateau and canyonlands.
Canyonlands Aerial views of the Colorado Plateau and the canyonlands associated with the Canyonlands National Park area in southeastern Utah. Located near the site of the Nature Conservancy's Dugout Ranch. Dugout Ranch is interspersed along the biologically rich canyon bottoms of Indian and North Cottonwood Creeks. These canyons are walled by steep sandstone cliffs and talus slopes that form the gateway to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. © Ted Wood

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The Nature Conservancy’s Impact in Utah

For 40 years, we’ve helped protect the state’s lands and waters.

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Our Conservation Priorities Across the West

Discover how we're collaborating with our TNC colleagues and partners across the western U.S. and Canada to advance conservation on a transformative scale.

Sagebrush Sea

The Nature Conservancy is working across Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon to protect this iconic western landscape, one of the largest natural systems in North America.

Colorado River Basin

The Nature Conservancy is working to protect the Colorado River Basin, which provides water, food, recreation and energy for more than 40 million people.

Western Dry Forests and Fire Program

The Nature Conservancy is working across the western U.S. to catalyze forest restoration on a transformative scale.

Climate and Renewable Energy

To accelerate a conservation-minded transition away from fossil fuels, TNC envisions the development of a more flexible and responsive western energy grid based on renewable energy sources shared across state boundaries and deployed to avoid impacts to biodiversity-rich landscapes.
Cover of the 2025 TNC Utah spring newsletter.
Read Our Spring 2025 Newsletter

Discover how the Utah Chapter is advancing conservation across the state for people and nature.

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Latest stories from Utah

Aerial view of a brine shrimp boat and its nets.

Will We Save the Great Salt Lake?

Cover of the book A Cowgirl's Conservation Journey: Stories from the Dugout Ranch.

A Cowgirl’s Conservation Journey—a New Book by Heidi Redd & TNC

A beaver swimming in a lake.

Videos of the Colorado River Basin

Kids running on a boardwalk at the Great Salt Lake Shorelands preserve.

Wings and Water: Wetlands Education Program

A field of tall grass growing, called Kernza.

Field of Dreams

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An old ranch building is dwarfed by red rock canyonland.
PLACE_HOLDER PLACE_HOLDER © Ted Wood

Places We Protect

See the Places We Protect in Your Community

Since 1984, The Nature Conservancy in Utah has helped to protect more than 1 million acres of public and private land throughout the state, for plants, animals and people.

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Cover of the fall 2024 Sundial newsletter.
Explore the Latest from the Canyonlands Research Center

Catch up on the latest research and collaboration driving sustainable solutions on the Colorado Plateau.

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