2017
11
Jun
Archaeology Is Often the Last Line of Defense for the Places of the Past
Archaeology Is Often the Last Line of Defense for the Places of the Past
Sometimes I get the feeling that, as a field archaeologist, I am an undertaker for wild places, for I might be one of the last people to see a place before it is chained, leveled, mined, trenched or burned. The thought of what ...
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2015
03
May
Western State Governments Pass "Dubious" Legislation Concerning the Transfer of Federal Lands
Western State Governments Pass "Dubious" Legislation Concerning the Transfer of Federal Lands
For the last several decades, efforts to transfer the oversight of federal land to states has arisen only in isolated legislative initiatives that eventually died out. But in a mad rush since 2012, 10 of ...
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2013
29
Dec
Reinventing the West - Recreation vs. Extraction
Reinventing the West
A strange thing happened in Escalante, Utah, during the government shutdown last fall. The town, a remote community of fewer than 800 souls perched on a high desert plain around a trickle of water called the Escalante River, is surrounded on all sides by the Grand Staircase-Esca...
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