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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.
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.