How protecting public lands can help the climate. 

From CT.org…Small cities and towns have properties called parks, school grounds, conservation areas, surplus properties, brownfield sites and vacant lands that may be leverageable into climate change assets. Small gestures help make progress and inspire others to follow suit. 

About two-thirds of Utah is public land owned by the federal government. Some of that land includes national parks, like Zion and Arches. 

Olivia Juarez of the nonprofit Green Latinos has worked as an organizer with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. 

“When I think of public land the first thing that comes to my mind is nature — mountains, desert valleys, canyon country,” Juarez says.