In 1892, Buffalo Bill and an entourage of English noblemen spent a memorable night at Kane Ranch headquarters, hosted by ranch owner Edwin Dilworth “Dee” Woolley.
Rick and Susie Knezevich, who own 840 acres on the southern edge of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, learn that nature often does its own restoration work faster (and cheaper) than people can.
If done correctly, the Eastern Utah Public Lands Initiative bill has the opportunity to secure new wilderness, national conservation areas, and watershed protection zones while exchanging state lands out of newly protected areas.
Over 1 million gallons of toxic mine waste spilled into the Animas River, turning it an eerie orange. This should make us think twice about mining uranium near the Grand Canyon.