Moab is the seat of two national parks, a Bureau of Land Management office which manages 1.8 million acres, two U.S. Geologic Service offices, and a Forest Service office. Collectively, the federal government is one of the biggest employers in Grand County and undeniably the most powerful economic force in Southeast Utah.
Sustainable recreation, resource extraction, grazing and wildlife rely on science to inform evidence-based management. The women and men who work in scientific fields directly for the federal government or who use federal lands and resources for non-governmental science work care deeply about their work, the benefits they provide to community, contributing to the scientific cannon, and the public generally.