2017
26
Sep
Interior Secretary Zinke's Review of National Monuments Now Public
Interior Secretary Zinke's Review of National Monuments Now Public
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended that President Trump modify 10 national monuments created by his immediate predecessors, including shrinking the boundaries of at least four western sites, according to a copy of the r...
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2017
17
Sep
Utah Requests Bears Ears Be Reduced in Area by Ninety Percent
State of Utah Requests Bears Ears Be Reduced in Area by Ninety Percent
If maps Utah has submitted to the Interior Department are a guide, Bears Ears National Monument will be drastically cut in size. The state’s vision, shared with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, is to shrink Bears Ears to one-ten...
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2017
27
Aug
An Assault upon the Antiquities Act
Archaeology Southwest Stands with the Antiquities Act
Archaeology Southwest denounces today’s executive order by President Trump, which requires the Department of the Interior to review national monument designations since 1996 that are greater than 100,000 acres or determined to be lacking in a...
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2017
30
Jul
New York Times Examines Three Threatened Monuments
New York Times Examines Three Threatened Monuments:
Bears Ears, UT
The archaeologist Benjamin Bellorado, a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, has conducted research in this area for 20 years. He led me down the side of a trailless canyon on one bright morning, as we stayed on the slic...
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2017
09
Jul
Wild Potatoes Were on the Clovis Menu
Wild Potatoes Were Apparently Consumed by Clovis Era Peoples
A team of archaeologists and anthropologists, led by the University of Utah, has discovered potato starch residues in the crevices of a 10,900-year-old stone tool in Escalante, southern Utah — the earliest evidence of wild potato use i...
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2017
11
Jun
Archaeology Is Often the Last Line of Defense for the Places of the Past
Archaeology Is Often the Last Line of Defense for the Places of the Past
Sometimes I get the feeling that, as a field archaeologist, I am an undertaker for wild places, for I might be one of the last people to see a place before it is chained, leveled, mined, trenched or burned. The thought of what ...
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2017
29
May
Department of the Interior Receives Overwhelming Public Support for Bears Ears
Department of the Interior Receives Overwhelming Public Support for Bears Ears
Supporters of Bears Ears National Monument sent a flood of comments to the Department of the Interior urging that the Utah monument be protected, with more than 685,000 messages of support submitted in just 15 days....“...
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2017
15
May
How to Protect Our National Monuments
Archaeology Southwest's President and CEO on How to Protect Our National Monuments
On April 26, 2017, the President issued an executive order requiring the Department of the Interior to review national monument designations since 1996 that are greater than 100,000 acres.This order assails the fundam...
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2017
07
May
Bears Ears and Monument Reviews
Interior Department Lists Monuments under Review: Opportunity for Public Comments Opens May 13
The Department of the Interior today announced the first ever formal public comment period for members of the public to officially weigh in on monument designations under the Antiquities Act of 1906, and ...
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2017
30
Apr
The Antiquities Act Is Challenged
Trump Calls for Review of 28 National Monuments, Revocation of Bears Ears
President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday calling on the Department of the Interior (DOI) to review “all Presidential designations or expansions of designations under the Antiquities Act made since January ...
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2017
27
Apr
Take Action: Stand with the Antiquities Act
Kate Sarther Gann, Communications Coordinator
(April 27, 2017)—An attack on one national monument is an attack on all national monuments.
On April 26, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order requiring the Department of the Interior to review national monument designations since 1996 ...
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2017
23
Apr
International Tourism at Places Such As Mesa Verde in Decline
International Tourism at Places Such As Mesa Verde in Decline
It should go without saying that any U.S. travel ban will reduce incoming travel. That, after all, is the point. But when the Trump administration moved, so far unsuccessfully, to restrict travel from predominately Muslim nations it beli...
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