For Immediate Release Wednesday, April 28, 2021
WASHINGTON President Joe Biden promised ambitious action to tackle climate change and America’s other environmental problems upon taking office. A new progress report from U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Environment America Research & Policy Center finds that despite the need to rebuild many federal agencies and tackle the COVID-19 crisis, the Biden administration has already taken numerous steps to restore environmental protections rolled back by the Trump administration. The report also gives President Biden “extra credit” for new policies aimed at addressing climate change and conserving our lands and waters. However, most actions remain incomplete.
The current unbridled growth of the tourism industrial complex in Moab and much of southeast Utah points out the need for urgent protection of our nearby county, state and federal public lands. Locally, we can all see what happens when public lands are not adequately protected.
Looking more regionally, our new Interior Secretary, Deb Haaland, recently toured southeast Utah to learn more about Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. She visited with Native American groups, Bureau of Land Management employees and Utah politicians to determine whether the two monuments should be returned to their former status.
Without protection for Bears Ears, is it too much of a stretch to imagine âMoon House Manor Overnight RentalsâStay two nights and get discount tickets to the nightly laser showâBringing the Ancients Back to Life!â Or how about buying a time-share at the âCedar Mesa Extreme Adventure Resort and OHV Parkâ?
Letter: Utah delegation canât be trusted on the future of the monuments
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Bears Ears buttes April 10, 2021.
By Beth Allen | The Public Forum
  | April 28, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
I shook my head when reading Gov. Coxâs opinion suggesting a âlegislative solutionâ for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. This option has been available to Utah politicians for years but has never gained traction because what the Utah delegation offers is not protection at all, but exploitation in disguise. Their parochial vision immediately puts them at odds with national interests precisely the reason the Antiquities Act exists at all.
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Fossils hint that Tyrannosaurs lived in packs
New theory based on mass death sites in Utah, elsewhere By SOPHIA EPPOLITO, Associated Press/ Report for America
Published: April 27, 2021, 6:05am
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2 Photos A Hollywood dinosaur specimen that was discovered approximately 2 miles north of the Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah on Feb. 26, 2019. (Bureau of Land Management) Photo Gallery
SALT LAKE CITY Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled found.
Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of two monuments that the Biden administration is considering restoring to their full size after former President Donald Trump shrunk them.