2024
03
Apr
Bears Ears Partnership Debuts Short Documentary
Dear Friends,
Paul Reed, Preservation Archaeologist and Director of our New Mexico State Program, recently published a stunning report on the problem of orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells and energy infrastructure surrounding Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and Chaco Canyon National Hi...
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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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2019
18
Jun
Carleton Bowekaty and the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition
Profile: Carleton Bowekaty and the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition
The fight to protect Bears Ears has been going on for over 80 years, since the 1930s. Despite the current setback, [Bowekaty’s] motivations to protect Bears Ears remain strong: Bowekaty wishes to reconnect his people to the land...
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2019
14
May
Tragedy at Danger Cave
Tragedy at Danger Cave
A cave with evidence of some of the earliest humans in Utah was looted last week by thieves — who, state park officials say, tore security fixtures from the walls and stole all the artifacts inside. http://bit.ly/2YvTweV - Salt Lake Tribune
Feature: The Bears Ears Educat...
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2018
04
Dec
Thank You for Commenting
Unprecedented Number of Comments Submitted on Behalf of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante
Organizations in Utah announced Tuesday that Americans across the country submitted more than 500,000 comments on the future of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This outsized...
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2018
03
Dec
Celebrating a Mammoth Dust-up in Bluff (2018 Edition)
R. E. Burrillo, SWCA
(December 4, 2018)—This is an update of an essay I posted here in December 2016. Bluff artist Joe Pachak and the gang are preparing for another Winter Solstice festival, and meanwhile a lot else has happened between then and now.
Utah’s San Juan County is no stranger...
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2018
11
Sep
Bears Ears Education Center Opens September 22
Bears Ears Education Center Opens September 22
Instead, the goal of the new Bears Ears Education Center is to serve up what its organizers say the federal government has neglected to provide — a way to teach the public about protecting the precious but sensitive cultural history in this archaeolo...
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