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Fri Aug 23, 2019, 09:05 PM Aug 2019

Bears Ears: A Story of Native American Homelands

“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.’”
– Barack Obama

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 lives—baskets, pottery, tools, and weapons—still remain (to be pillaged under a new Trump fiasco).
https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/bears-ears-story-homelands

Plan allows drilling, grazing near national monument in Utah
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




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Bears Ears: A Story of Native American Homelands (Original Post) real Cannabis calm Aug 2019 OP
Preserving Bears Ears is everybody's business. Kid Berwyn Aug 2019 #1
I agree. And Trump is facilitating similar atrocities to nature, nationwide. real Cannabis calm Aug 2019 #5
The Bundy Bunch Mendocino Aug 2019 #2
Is Bear's Ears near Four Corners? real Cannabis calm Aug 2019 #3
I would put the Mendocino Aug 2019 #4

real Cannabis calm

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3. Is Bear's Ears near Four Corners?
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 11:53 PM
Aug 2019

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?

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4. I would put the
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 12:14 AM
Aug 2019

"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.

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