by Natasha Hale, Native America Manager
As cool fall winds start to blow over the plateau, change is in the air for permanent protection of the Bears Ears region.
On September 14, the House...
by Tim Peterson, Cultural Landscapes Director
August 2023 was a historic month for national monuments on the Colorado Plateau. As we celebrated the creation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni − Ancestral...
by Natasha K. Hale, Native America Manager
As 2016, the year of Bears Ears, comes to a close, tribes across the country are looking to a promising new framework for Native American engagement in...
by Tim Peterson, Utah Wildlands Director
As the holiday season sets in on the Colorado Plateau, we look forward to gathering together with our friends and families. Tribal leaders from Hopi, Navajo...
by Tim Peterson, Cultural Landscapes Director
2020 has been a real whirlwind. From the global pandemic, to a historically high-turnout presidential election, to an “alien” steel column in a canyon...
The first ever tribally-led push for a national monument aims to protect 1.9 million acres of southeastern Utah.
BY ALASTAIR LEE BITSÓÍ
Malcolm Lehi remembers the stories his father told him...
by Tim Peterson, Utah Wildlands Director
October has been a big month for the Colorado Plateau. On October 12th, Representative Raul Grijalva announced new legislation to permanently protect a Grand...
Here's my answer.
BY TIM PETERSON
In my day-to-day life, scarcely a week goes by without someone asking me a version of one of these questions: What’s going on with Bears Ears? What about the...
What a fossil might tell us about cultural ties between the ancient peoples of the Grand Canyon and Bears Ears.
BY R.E. BURRILLO
This is a story that begins over 13,000 years ago inside the Grand...
by Tim Peterson, Cultural Landscapes Director
UPDATE: On October 8, 2021, President Biden restored full protections to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Send a personal...