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Utah
Posted inFebruary 5, 2018: Caught Between Crises
When elk get iced; Raw water craze; Nudes in Utah
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Utah’s approach to public lands won’t work
New Mexico exemplifies the risk of managing lands at the whim of local interests.
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Utah is headed into a water battle it can’t win
Why is this fiscally conservative state pushing an expensive diversion project?
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What Abbey’s ‘Desert Solitaire’ means in these trying times
The book turns 50 this year, and is more relevant now than ever.
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For endangered species, politics replaces science
A leaked Fish and Wildlife memo suggests a shift away from science.
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2017 in natural disasters
From massive wildfires to melting ice, the calamities that affected the West this year.
Posted inDecember 25, 2017: Bear Essentials
A visit to Pie Town; Mermaids on maternity leave; Airplane pit-stop
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Native voices aren’t being heard on Bears Ears
Members of the Navajo Nation are not ‘conquered subjects.’
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Stop trying to militarize Interior, Ryan Zinke
Military-style management doesn’t work everywhere.
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Why Trump’s Bears Ears decision worries so many
There are now five lawsuits contesting the president’s monument reductions, including two led by tribes.
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What national monument protections do
Some say the Bears Ears shrinkage won’t change anything — they’re wrong.
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Utah national monuments face dramatic reductions
Cutbacks to Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears spark protests and lawsuits.
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How to make sense of Trump’s changes to Bears Ears
The drastically reduced boundaries don’t line up with what the public wants.
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A new national monument – in Zinke’s home state
Interior threatens to shrink boundaries at Western sites, but Badger-Two Medicine might get designated.
Posted inNovember 27, 2017: Profit and Politics
In Utah, public access to state lands comes at a cost
Public access to trust lands varies widely from state to state.
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Advice from Moab’s mayor: Be careful what you wish for
As his final term ends, Dave Sakrison weighs the cost of decades of transformation.
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Don’t trim Grand Staircase. If anything, expand it.
The Utah monument is sustaining small town tourism, a good substitute for extractive industry.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
What are we fighting for?
Bell Prize winner: Through the trials of life, a young writer finds she’s fighting for our spirit.
Posted inNovember 13, 2017: Solace and Perspective
Deer at recess; Stranded in Kanab; A brain-eating mantis
Mishaps and mayhem around the region.