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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2020
15
Sep
Take Action Now to Protect the Greater Chaco Landscape!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qftRVuGNbxM&
Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist
(September 15, 2020)—We want to thank everyone for supporting us over the last seven years on our efforts to protect the Greater Chaco Landscape from encroaching oil-gas development.
Now it is time to ...
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2020
05
May
Continuing Coverage: Interior Moves Public Meetings Online, Does Not Postpone Deadlines
Dear Friends,
It’s Tuesday afternoon, and I’m getting ready to moderate our second Archaeology Café Online. Tonight’s program will be with John Welch, who directs Archaeology Southwest’s Landscape and Site Protection Program, and our honored guest, Octavius Seowtewa of Zuni Pueblo. John ...
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2020
28
Apr
Federal Report Recommends Uranium Mining near Grand Canyon, Bears Ears
Dear Friends of Southwest Archaeology Today,
How are you—how was your week?
Probably not unlike yours, mine was not what I had expected it to be a few months ago. This past Wednesday through Sunday, I would have been in Austin, Texas, attending the Society for American Archaeology’s (SAA...
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2020
21
Apr
Learning from Ancient Southwestern Farming Cultures
Dear Friends of Southwest Archaeology Today,
We made it through our first Archaeology Café Online last week. Thanks to all who joined us, and thanks to Paul Reed for his presentation. We’ve linked to the video and some additional material from Paul in this week’s edition below. On May 5 we...
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2020
20
Apr
Following Up on My April 14 Archaeology Café
On April 14, Paul Reed kicked off our first-ever Archaeology Café served entirely online. Watch and share his discussion of "Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan" below. To participate in our next Archaeology Café on May 5, 2020, register ahead here.
https://www.y...
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2020
07
Apr
Postponed: Why You Should Experience Aztec and Salmon
UPDATE: 4/10/2020. This event has moved online. Join us on April 14, 2020 to participate safely from the comforts of your own home. Register here.
Knowledge seekers of every kind are welcome at Archaeology Café at The Loft Cinema for a series of programs exploring the deep and diverse history of...
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2020
11
Feb
Final Management Plans for Reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante Open Lands to Extraction
Final Management Plans for Reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante Open Lands to Extraction
Thursday the Trump administration announced it was opening two national monuments to development. The culturally and geologically significant Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments will ...
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2019
10
Dec
National Monument Reductions, Two Years Later
Commentary: “Relentless assault” in the Two Years Since National Monument Reductions
This week marks the two-year anniversary of the Trump administration’s decision to decimate two national monuments located in Utah. With the stroke of a pen, the president removed protections on 85% of the Be...
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2019
16
Apr
Protecting Greater Chaco - Important Updates
Protecting Greater Chaco
Acoma Pueblo tribal Gov. Brian Vallo told members of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources at a hearing in New Mexico that not enough is being done to safeguard sacred sites scattered beyond the national park at Chaco Canyon. Many of the sites involve more ...
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2019
09
Apr
New Mexico Delegation Introduces Chaco Protection Legislation
New Mexico Delegation Introduces Chaco Protection Legislation
Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Deb Haaland introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, S. 1079, a bill to withdraw the federal lands around Chaco Canyon from...
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2019
13
Feb
BLM Temporarily Defers Leases in Chaco Buffer Zone
BLM Temporarily Defers Leases in Chaco Buffer Zone
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management reversed course Friday, saying certain land near Chaco Culture National Historical Park would no longer be offered at an oil and gas lease sale in March. Environmental advocates, tribal groups and Democratic lawma...
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