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Advocate Spring/Summer 2021 - Features

Advocate Spring/Summer 2021 - Features
Spring/Summer 2021 Features
 
Honoring our ancestors and maintaining our living cultures, while giving forthcoming generations their own cultural ground to stand on. BY LYLE BALENQUAH
 
A new bill in Congress would permanently ban new uranium mines on public lands around the national park. BY REP. RAÚL GRIJALVA
 
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was created as “the science monument.” It’s time to make real restoration happen. BY CAROLYN Z. SHELTON
 
From self-government to self-determination, the promise and perils of federal policy for Native nations. BY REBECCA TSOSIE

Advocate Fall/Winter 2020 - Features

Advocate Fall/Winter 2020 - Features
Fall/Winter 2020 Features
 
Why the Little Colorado River is the wrong place to build a dam. BY SARANA RIGGS
 
Tribal communities across the plateau are rising to face COVID-19 and organizing community-led relief efforts. Here's how you can help. BY DEON BEN
 
A scheme to build thousands of hotel rooms on the doorstep of Grand Canyon National Park is back. But where will the water come from? BY ROGER CLARK
 
After nearly a decade, a massive oil shale project that puts Utah's clean air and rivers at risk finally arrives in federal court. BY MICHAEL TOLL

Advocate Spring/Summer 2020 - Features

Advocate Spring/Summer 2020 - Features
Spring/Summer 2020 Features
 
What's in store for the spectacular side canyons along the Escalante River? BY JOHN LESHY
 
The fight to save Utah's pinyon and juniper forests. BY MIKE POPEJOY
 
Bringing generations of Indigenous traditional knowledge to bear. BY TIM PETERSON
 
Living in the shadow of America's last uranium mill. BY TALIA BOYD

Advocate Fall/Winter 2019 - Features

Advocate Fall/Winter 2019 - Features
Fall/Winter 2019 FEATURES
How Native entrepreneurs are tapping into the Grand Canyon tourism economy. BY JESSICA STAGO
 
The Antelope Canyon you've never heard of. BY AMBER BENALLY AND AUDREY KRUSE
 
Can Navajo and Hopi transcend their past? BY TONY SKRELUNAS AND KARL CATES
 
Hunters and anglers are big on conservation in the Grand Canyon region. BY SCOTT GARLID
 

Advocate Spring/Summer 2019 - Features

Advocate Spring/Summer 2019 - Features
Spring/Summer 2019 Features
 
To know this world, you must see it from the ground. BY KEVIN FEDARKO
 
The case for renaming Indian Garden. BY OPHELIA WATAHOMIGIE-CORLISS
 
The contentious history of mapping the Grand Canyon. BY ROGER CLARK
 
Running the Grand Canyon's fiercest rapid. BY CYD AND STEVE MARTIN

Advocate Fall/Winter 2018 - Features

Advocate Fall/Winter 2018 - Features
Fall/Winter 2018 FEATURES
Native voices on the Grand Canyon National Park centennial. BY SARANA RIGGS
 
You're invited: Grand Canyon National Park centennial events. BY CHRIS LEHNERTZ
 
What a fossil might tell us about cultural ties between the ancient peoples of the Grand Canyon and Bears Ears. BY R.E. BURRILLO
 
What you need to know about new mining claims staked in Utah's national monuments. BY TIM PETERSON
 

Advocate Spring/Summer 2018 - Features

Advocate Spring/Summer 2018 - Features
Spring/Summer 2018 Features
 
The legal fight for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase. BY TIM PETERSON
 
How do we protect the confluence for good? BY ROGER CLARK
 
A 54-day bike tour across the Colorado Plateau. BY BROOKE LARSEN
 
Is the mining ban safe from direct action by the Trump administration? BY AMBER REIMONDO
 
 

Advocate Fall/Winter 2017 - Features

Advocate Fall/Winter 2017 - Features
Fall/Winter 2017 FEATURES
Blisters, balloons, and an 800-mile trek through the wild heart of the Grand Canyon. 
 
The proposed tramway resort promises big returns, but at what price? BY SARANA RIGGS
 
A uranium mine, a sacred mountain, and a tribe’s struggle to protect its drinking water. BY ELLEN HEYN
 
Breathing life into vendor booths on the east rim of the Grand Canyon. BY EMILY THOMPSON
 
 

Advocate Spring/Summer 2017 - Features

Advocate Spring/Summer 2017 - Features
Spring/Summer 2017 FEATURES
With bills in Congress to gut the Antiquities Act, protecting it will take all of us. BY RAÚL GRIJALVA
 
The beauty of the Bears Ears National Monument proclamation. BY TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
 
Utah “land grabbers” misread history, as well as the dictionary. BY JOHN LESHY
 
The Colorado Plateau’s national monuments are full of surprises. BY HILLARY HOFFMANN
 
 

Advocate Fall/Winter 2016 - Features

Advocate Fall/Winter 2016 - Features
Fall/Winter 2016 FEATURES
Testament to a great conservation law and the resilience of Indian tribes. BY CHARLES WILKINSON
 
How “Keep it in the Ground” is shaping the environmental movement. BY KATE SAVAGE
 
Balancing the art and economics of America's public lands. BY FELICITY BARRINGER
 
Why the federal lands takeover movement can’t be ignored. BY ETHAN AUMACK
 
 

Advocate Spring/Summer 2016 - Features

Advocate Spring/Summer 2016 - Features
Spring/Summer 2016 FEATURES
Harnessing the power of fire to help our forests transition into a brave new world. BY ETHAN AUMACK
 
A 1,000-mile walk gives a former U.S. senator a new appreciation for the West’s most precious resource. BY MARK UDALL
 
The West’s water deficit and what to do about it. BY ROBERT GLENNON
 
Global warming is making fur hats passé, but beavers themselves are making a comeback. BY ELLEN HEYN

Advocate Fall/Winter 2015 - Features

Advocate Fall/Winter 2015 - Features
Fall/Winter 2015 Features
In southeastern Utah, the first ever tribally-led push for a national monument steams ahead. BY ALASTAIR LEE BITSÓÍ
 
Would draining Lake Powell alleviate the West’s water woes? BY DR. RICHARD INGEBRETSEN
 
How a journalist’s love affair with redrock put her on a mission to protect it. BY PAM HAIT
 
Empowering local communities to protect their own backyards. BY KYRA BUSCH WITH GRAZIA BORRINI-FEYERABEND AND TONY SKRELUNAS
 

Advocate Spring 2015 - Features

Advocate Spring 2015 - Features
Spring/Summer 2015 Features
In a West transformed by climate change, there will be boomers, busters, and stickers. Which are you? BY WILLIAM DEBUYS
 
What happens at the Grand Canyon—good or bad—will reverberate throughout the rest of the nation's parks. BY KEVIN FEDARKO
 
What a law professor's road trip with her 13-year-old daughter reveals about the next generation of conservationists. BY SARAH KRAKOFF
 
Indigenous communities and climate change. BY REBECCA TSOSIE

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