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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 sites, such as a rock climber who recently bolted through prehistoric petroglyphs near Moab, most dama...

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 steadies himself and silently shimmies down the side of a boulder. “Try not to wake the bees,” he...

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 Utah's 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. Don Simonis is an archaeologist who worked for the Bureau of Land Management in San Juan County for...

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 station to the Hole-in-the-Rock Foundation, a Mormon nonprofit group. Adobe stock Tale of a tran...