An ugly tower threatens Bears Ears National Monument
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My Navajo homeland is the great expanse of land between four sacred mountains in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah….
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One hundred and one years ago, my Ute ancestors were forced to live within a barbed-wire camp in Blanding, a…
La Sal Range in Northern San Juan County, Utah, courtesy Wikimedia Commons
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Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument rarely leaves the news. The political tussle over this stunning expanse of red rock canyons…
Rainbow over Cheesebox Butte- Highway 95, photo by Stephen Trimble
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When President Joe Biden restored the original boundaries of both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments in 2021, public-land…
Grand Staircase Escalante, Unsplash/Halie West
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“Yet Obama’s policies were equally friendly to energy development.”
Photograph by AJ Nash — @VernChronicles
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