2022
06
Sep
Capturing Day-to-Night in Bears Ears
Dear Friends,
A week from today, the bill to establish a Great Bend of the Gila National Conservation Area (H.R. 8719) will have a hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee in Washington, DC. It will be heard along with two other bills (H.R. 8108, Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land...
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2021
08
Jun
115 Years of the Antiquities Act
Dear Friends,
There is a strong theme in today’s articles.
Anticipation.
At the moment President Biden took his oath of office, he gained the potential to use the power of the Antiquities Act.
There was a good bit of hopeful anticipation on Inauguration Day that Biden would immediately...
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2020
16
Jun
Senate Vote on Great American Outdoors Act May Come This Week
Dear Friends,
How are you today?
It has been a week of serious introspection for me, ordering thoughts and finding words. I knew I had an important first step to take: acknowledging my role in systemic racism. I've gathered these thoughts into a blog post I hope you'll read (click here for tha...
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2019
28
Jun
Fighting the Bears Ears Downsizing (with an Agèd Friend)
Bill Doelle, President & CEO
(June 28, 2019)—On June 8, 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law.
And yet, 113 years later, in the year 2019, at about the same time, there were no headlines announcing that President Roosevelt had risen from his grave to ma...
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2018
19
Dec
How You Can Help Protect Heritage Sites
Stacy Ryan, Preservation Archaeologist
(December 19, 2018)—“How much money can I get if I find artifacts while I’m out hiking?”
I occasionally hear some variation of this troubling question when someone learns of my profession, and each time it reinforces that there is much work to ...
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2018
28
Aug
Understanding the Chaco World
New Paper: Chaco Social Networks
Migration was a key social process contributing to the creation of the ‘Chaco World’ between AD 800 and 1200. Dynamic social network analysis allows for evaluation of several migration scenarios, and demonstrates that Chaco’s earliest ninth-century networks sh...
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2018
22
Aug
BLM Releases Draft Monument-Management Plans for Grand Staircase, Bears Ears
BLM Releases Draft Monument-Management Plans for Grand Staircase, Bears Ears
Most of the lands removed from southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument would be available to coal mining and oil or gas drilling under federal draft plans released Wednesday, putting nearly 700,000 ac...
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2018
01
Aug
Interior Rescinds Science Policy for National Parks
Interior Rescinds Science Policy for National Parks
As deputy director of the National Park Service, Michael Reynolds played a key role in developing a sweeping new vision for managing national parks. The new policy, enacted in the final weeks of the Obama administration, elevated the role that sci...
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2018
02
Mar
Greater Bears Ears as Borderlands
Today’s post is by our friend and frequent contributor R. E. Burrillo, who co-edited, with Benjamin A. Bellorado, the new issue of Archaeology Southwest Magazine, “Sacred and Threatened: The Cultural Landscapes of Greater Bears Ears,” released today.
R. E. Burrillo, SWCA Environmental Cons...
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2018
08
Jan
Some Monumental Issues
Bill Lipe, Professor Emeritus, Washington State University
(January 8, 2018)—I’ve been involved with the archaeology of the Bears Ears area for more than 50 years, and I actively support President Obama’s use of the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate the Bears Ears National Monument. Media c...
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2017
08
Dec
Chaos and the Swamp—a perspective from an airplane
Bill Doelle, President & CEO
(December 8, 2017)—The last few days have been more chaotic than most for me. On Monday, while I was flying east to Washington, DC, President Trump was making good on his promise to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, (illegally) slashing more than 1.1 million acres fro...
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2017
06
Dec
BROAD COALITION SUES TO STOP TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S UNLAWFUL DISMEMBERMENT OF THE BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT
For Immediate Release
December 6, 2017
CONTACTS: See list below
Archaeology Southwest Stands with Coalition to Defend Bears Ears in Court
(Washington, D.C.)–A broad coalition of Native American, conservation, and historic preservation organizations, outdoor industry, scientists, and ou...
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