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Scott Braden
Executive Director, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance · Salt Lake City, UT
Conservation leader Scott Braden has been selected as Executive Director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), which has been the only independent organization working full-time to defend America’s redrock wilderness from oil and gas development, unnecessary road construction, rampant off-road vehicle use, and other threats to Utah’s wilderness-quality lands. Braden comes to SUWA with two decades of experience in conservation advocacy, nonprofit management and organizational leadership.
Braden most recently served as co-founder and director of the Colorado Wildlands Project. There, he led efforts to protect Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, including a national monument campaign for the Dolores River canyon country, securing a variety of administrative protections, and establishing a collaborative stewardship program. He previously worked as a public lands advocate at Conservation Colorado and the Colorado Mountain Club.
Braden began his advocacy career at SUWA from 2007 to 2011, learning first-hand how to be a wilderness advocate, connect with passionate SUWA members, and navigate the halls of Congress out of the organization’s Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC offices. Prior to joining SUWA as a staff member, he was an outdoor educator in the Utah Program of the Colorado Outward Bound School, where he first attended “Wilderness Week” and lobbied for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, SUWA’s signature federal legislation, as a redrock activist.
The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is a nonprofit organization with members and supporters from around the country dedicated to protecting America’s redrock wilderness. From offices in Moab, Salt Lake City, and Washington, DC, our team of professionals defends the redrock, organizes support for America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, and stewards this world-renowned landscape.