I Stand with Bears Ears & America's National Monuments

Get your Bears Ears comments in TODAY!

I do not recall my first trip out Utah's Bicentennial Highway but I had already read about it unknowingly in the "Monkey Wrench Gang". It was probably about 1989 that I first looked west from Comb Ridge.

Since then I have backpacked in Fish, Owl, Grand and Kane Gulch. And into White Canyon in a wet spring when the arroyo flowed clear and cold and wildflowers rioted. Ran into random friends at Fry Canyon. Took many a visitor to Butler Wash when doing day hikes and drive bys. Slid on skis up Mule Canyon one snowy red rock winter day.

Years later I would hear first hand accounts from (now retired) BLM staff about the damage wrought to ancient treasures as UDOT blasted cut, filled, realigned and paved their new highway through Comb Ridge. In this telling major archaeological sites were destroyed for the desire of engineers, the cleanness of straight lines on a map, and the coming RVs.

Abbey warned about this, the rapacious ruin wrought by those with dollar signs in their eyes, obscuring all else.

We cannot turn back the clock but we can take a stand for the future.

That is why I stand with Bears Ears. Join me as fellow procrastinators, and

GET YOUR COMMENTS IN TODAY

The Trump Administration is considering the unprecedented, probably illegal, and dangerous move of revoking popular protection for these amazing public lands, currently owned by all Americans and sacred to many native tribes with centuries of historical connections, and into the foggy recesses of millennia before that, to these very lands. Extremist Utah politicians are among the few, lonely vices calling for this reckless move. Join the HUGE up-welling of support for Bears Ears and all our amazing National Monuments.

Follow the link to submit your comment to the U.S. Department of Interior today!

https://bearsearscoalition.org/action/