Tue January 26, 2021 - West Edition #3
Lori Tobias â CEG Correspondent
UDOT considered several options for upgrading the Jason R. Workman Memorial Bridge, including two new bridges, one that would have maintained the current alignment and another that would have been farther up the road and eliminated a hairpin turn necessary to access the current bridge.
Vehicles have been traversing the bridge over the San Juan River on the edge of the tiny desert town of Mexican Hat, Utah, since 1953.
Six years ago, the metal arch bridge was renamed the
Jason R. Workman Memorial Bridge, honoring Utah native and fallen local war hero Special Ops Jason Workman. Workman was a 1997 graduate of the San Juan High School who died Aug. 6, 2011, when the Chinook helicopter he was riding in was shot down in Afghanistan.
It isn’t far-fetched to say some Aspen environmentalists cried tears of joy when Joseph Biden replaced Donald Trump as president on Tuesday.
The staff at Aspen Center for Environmental Studies couldn’t watch the ceremony together because of the pandemic, but they shared a sentiment.
“The mood was elation,” ACES President and CEO Chris Lane said. “We all watched the inauguration and cried.”
A photographer takes a picture of the namesake geologic feature in the Bears Ears National Monument in December 2017. Aspen-based Ecoflight helped with the process that got the monument designated. Now it will help get it restored.
Snow is falling on the Bears Ears
By: FOX 13 News
and last updated 2020-12-11 12:06:18-05
BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Utah â Snow is falling on the Bears Ears.
According to a post on the US Forest Service-Manti-La Sal National Forestâs Facebook page, 4-5 inches of snow fell on Elk Ridge and the Bears Ears National Monument Thursday.