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Comb Ridge is a monocline, a formation 80 miles long with a north-south orientation, rising gradually on the eastern side and dropping precipitously 600 feet on the western side.

President Joe Biden’s push to designate new national monuments and conserve more land, part of his administration’s “30×30” initiative, appears to have support in Utah. That’s according to a new

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A cloud bank over Comb Wash from the sweeping edge of Comb Ridge during a beautiful day in San Juan County on December 18. Enter your photos in our Photo of the Week contest.

Utah has some of the most popular national parks in the country, but these 7 state parks, national monuments, and landmarks are lesser-known but worth visiting.

Comb Ridge, an incredible 80-mile monocline that stretches from the Abajo Mountains to Kayenta, AZ, is known as the backbone of the earth in Native American tradition.

The Bears Ears in southeastern Utah are iconic landforms that have leapt to the American consciousness in an epic battle over how public lands should be used.

Utah’s leaders once again allowed their deeply ingrained anti-federal-land-management ideology to, ahem, trump any sort of pragmatism, Jonathan Thompson writes.

Why are San Juan Hill and Dance Hall Rock — mere stopovers along the Mormons’ 1879 journey — worthy of protection, but not the Ancestral Puebloan “roads” that crisscross the landscape, or the countless ancient shrines or landforms that have played important roles in Indigenous peoples’ histories since time immemorial?

The bid to diminish national monuments threatens landscape preservation.