December 2, 2016 National monuments should not be one-man shows, must include local input Pearce points out “the Antiquities Act requires that a president designate the smallest possible footprint in order to achieve the desired environmental preservation” and…
November 30, 2016 Colorado students supporting federal Bears Ears takeover vandalize antiquities Davis said the students responsible have been identified, but instead of punishment, the school has chosen to use the incident as a learning experience,…
November 23, 2016 Grassroots movement in SE Utah defies Obama monuments agenda The proposal to make Bears Ears a national monument has created divisions throughout the state of Utah. But in San Juan County, residents of…
November 21, 2016 Overzealous federal efforts to ‘protect’ lands are counterproductive In our desperation to save our treasures while something remains to be saved, we on the protectionist side have repeatedly done an end run…
November 18, 2016 Southeastern Utah Navajo overwhelmingly oppose Bears Ears Monument Massive tracts of land being declared National Monuments violates the very Antiquities Act used to enact them as they are to be “confined to…
November 10, 2016 Bears Ears will not be protected by overrunning it with tourism Though it aims to protect sacred space and preserve archaeological sites, a monument would actually tame the wild, overrun the spiritual, enforce webs of…
November 8, 2016 National Monuments: The New Feudalism In areas designated national monuments, productive activities are heavily restricted or even banned. These are precisely the sorts of restrictions that federal agencies have…
November 6, 2016 WikiLeaks exposes Podesta/PEW collusion behind Obama monuments push The email from PEW’s Mike Matz to Podesta, titled “National Monuments check in,” begins by citing a ‘lull’ in the creation of national monuments,…
November 2, 2016 Bears Ears Monument pushed by outside interests, still opposed by Utahans By far most Utahns still don’t want Obama to create such a park in southeastern Utah before he leaves office at the first of…
October 25, 2016 Bears Ears Autumn Free Range Report extends a warm thanks to Kara Laws, owner of Illuminated Moments, for sharing her beautiful photographs of the landscapes, trees and wildlife…
