Zinke twists truth on tribal support for Bears Ears

In this episode of Go West, Young Podcast, a conversation with archaeologist Jonathan Till, curator at Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum in Utah. Jonathan explains the history of human settlement in the Bears Ears region. Also in this episode: David Bernhardt’s conflicts of interest, part 1 and part 2 Under Trump, inconvenient data […]

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke toured the Bears Ears National Monument yesterday, spending his morning flying over the monument and the afternoon hiking to one of the many thousands of archaeological sites with a slew of national monument opponents. Prominently featured in Secretary Zinke’s tour group was Matt Anderson, a Utah-based political operative with ties to […]

An annotated copy of the Utah Delegation’s response to the protection of Bears Ears National Monument

This week Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and several senior Obama administration officials traveled to Bluff, Utah where they heard from thousands of people about the need to protect the Bears Ears region, a scenic area of southeastern Utah home to an estimated 100,000 archaeological sites that are threatened by looting and vandalism. A coalition of […]

RHETORIC: While introducing an amendment to effectively block the designation of Bears Ears National Monument, Representative Chris Stewart (R-UT), claimed that the number of tribes opposing the monument matched, or even exceeded, the number of tribes supporting the monument. Rep. Stewart said: “…There are some tribal interests who support Bears Ears, but for every one […]