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Rising from the center of the southeastern Utah landscape and visible from every direction are twin buttes so distinctive that in each of the native languages of the region their name is the same: Hoon'Naqvut, Shash Jáa, Kwiyagatu Nukavachi, Ansh An Lashokdiwe, or Bears Ears.
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For native peoples of the Colorado Plateau, the Bears Ears region is home. For hundreds of generations, their ancestors lived, raised their children, and buried their elders here. Their artists carved figures and left handprints on the rock walls. Clues about their daily livesbaskets, pottery, tools, and weaponsstill remain (to be pillaged under a new Trump fiasco).
https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/bears-ears-story-homelands
ByBRADY MCCOMBS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALT LAKE CITY Aug 23, 2019, 6:30 PM ET
A new U.S. government management plan unveiled Friday clears the way for coal mining and oil and gas drilling on land that used to be off limits as part of a sprawling national monument in Utah before President Donald Trump downsized the protected area two years ago.
The plan released by the Bureau of Land Management would also open more lands to cattle grazing and recreation and acknowledges there could be "adverse effects" on land and resources in the monument.
But while allowing more activities, the plan would also add a few safeguards...
Among them are opening fewer acres to ATVs and cancelling a plan that would have allowed people to collect some non-dinosaur fossils (including Native American religious relics) in certain areas.
The monument has seen a 63% increase in visitors over the past decade, hosting 1.1 million people from October 2017 through September 2018, according to U.S. government figures.
Conservation and paleontology groups have filed ongoing lawsuits to stop the downsizing.
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/apnewsbreak-us-government-issues-final-utah-monument-plan-65141619
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)Future generations forever deserve to see them.
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(1,124 posts)Mendocino
(7,431 posts)want the entire four corners area to be their private domain.
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(1,124 posts)Although, I simply dissect religions, in a book I am rewriting, do ALL readers realize the significance of Four Corners to Native Americans and early Christians, who visited there?
Mendocino
(7,431 posts)"Four Corners" as a general area as Mesa Verde, as far south to the Gila river in NM, somewhat NW to to end of the Grand Canyon, south of I-15 and I-70 of Utah. Bear Ears is near Blanding UT.