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Friends of Cedar Mesa devises 18 tips for safeguarding our past. (Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) Louis Williams, a Diné guide who runs Ancient Wayves River and Hiking Adventures in San Juan County, looks up at an inaccessible ancestral Puebloan cliff dwelling in Bears Ears National Monument on April 16, 2021.   | April 25, 2021, 12:00 p.m. National parks and monuments in southern Utah are seeing record numbers of visitors. While there are dramatic examples of destruction to cultural si...

GILA BEND — Before committing to the motion, Zion White cautiously checks where he plans to place his hand, trying to avoid the Native American petroglyphs he’s there to document. “When I see these petroglyphs, I think about how someone spent the time to peck out that image, put it on this rock and tell our history,” said White, a member of the Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe. “Now, I’m here doing the exact same thing to preserve our history.” With his hand carefully positioned, White s...

A conservation group in San Juan County is suing the Bureau of Land Management over tens of thousands of acres of public land it leased to oil and gas

/ The area between Bears Ears and Hovenweep national monuments is rich in archaeological sites, according to retired Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Don Simonis. A conservation group in Utahs San Juan County is suing the Bureau of Land Management over tens of thousands of acres of public land it leased to oil and gas developers in 2018. The land lies between Bears Ears and Hovenweep national monuments. The lawsuit claims drilling there could cause irreparable damage to cultural sites. ...

Tale of a transferred transfer station: Talking trash in San Juan County, Utah Durango, Colorado Currently Tue 3% chance of precipitation 6% chance of precipitation 10% chance of precipitation 1% chance of precipitation Sunday, April 11, 2021 1:03 PM The town of Bluff, Utah, is without a transfer station to deposit trash before it is hauled to the San Juan County landfill. On Nov. 20, 2018, county commissioners voted to transfer ownership of the transfer stat...

Unsplash Utah health officials are encouraging people to still wear masks after the statewide mandate ends Saturday. This story and more in Friday evenings news brief. Friday evening, April 9, 2021 Northern Utah Salt Lake City School District Votes To Push Back Start Times Students in the Salt Lake City School District will be able to sleep in a little more next fall. The district voted this week to delay the start time for some schools by an hour, moving the high school start to 8:45 a.m. ...

1 Min Read A conservation group sued the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., federal court on Thursday over 32 Trump-era oil and gas leases in Utah, alleging that the DOI proceeded without properly assessing their impacts on the area’s archaeology and nature including in the nearby Bears Ears National Monument. Friends of Cedar Mesa, whose staff met Wednesday with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as she visited the monument’s visitor center, claims in its lawsuit that the DOI has ...

One side of the “Birthing Scene” petroglyph near Moab, Utah. (Courthouse News photo / Kelsey Jukam) (CN) — A conservation group sued the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal court Thursday, claiming the agency issued dozens of oil and gas leases without adequately considering the impact they would have on the more than 50,000 acres in Southeastern Utah that are jam-packed with archeological sites.  “During the Trump Administration, there was a fire sale of lands throughout the Wes...

Interior secretary to meet with state leaders, tribes. (Susan Montoya Bryan | The Associated Press) U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens to tribal leaders during a round-table discussion at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. The visit marked Haalands first to her home state after being confirmed as head of the federal agency, making her the first Native American to hold a Cabinet position. She was in southern Utah on Wednesday.   | April ...

Tourists and looters descend on Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument as Biden mulls protections Published 3 hours ago Share on Facebook Print article BLUFF, Utah - In the sandstone canyon where Vaughn Hadenfeldt once saw the bloody tracks of a mountain lion hauling off a mule deer, there are 1,000-year-old cliff dwellings decorated by rock paintings of bighorn sheep where one can still see the ancient footprint of an infant pressed into the wall. A renowned wilderness guide with decades ...