It took millions of years to create the delicate sandstone arches and swirling crimson towers that rise over southern Utah's Redrock Wilderness. But it would take only days for unbridled oil and gas development to destroy this world-renowned natural treasure.

In 2008, we teamed up with NRDC Trustee and actor Robert Redford to defeat a Bush Administration scheme to open up hundreds of thousands of acres of redrock country -- right through national parks and monument areas -- for oil and gas leasing. Our legal team, in partnership with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, won an appeals court decision that protected more than 110,000 acres of stunning redrock wildlands from drilling. Now, it's time for the Obama administration to protect these lands for good.