2018
16
Oct
Pueblo Leaders on Saving the Greater Chaco Landscape
Podcast: Save the Greater Chaco Landscape
On today’s podcast we are hugely honored to have three special guests who spoke with Jessica [Yaquinto] about the Greater Chaco Landscape during their advocacy trip to Washington D.C. The first segment features All Pueblo Council of Governors (APCG) Chair...
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2018
02
Oct
Defending Cultural Landscapes, Latest Edition
NPR’s Science Friday Features Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments
The reduction opened up nearly 2 million acres of previously protected federal land to fossil fuel and mineral exploitation, angering Native Americans, for whom the land is historically and spiritually signi...
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2018
26
Sep
Monument Defense Lawsuits to Be Heard in Washington DC
Monument Defense Lawsuits to Be Heard in Washington DC
A federal judge has denied the government’s effort to move the lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s shrinking of the Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to Salt Lake City and will keep them here. Judge Tanya...
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2018
22
Aug
BLM Releases Draft Monument-Management Plans for Grand Staircase, Bears Ears
BLM Releases Draft Monument-Management Plans for Grand Staircase, Bears Ears
Most of the lands removed from southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument would be available to coal mining and oil or gas drilling under federal draft plans released Wednesday, putting nearly 700,000 ac...
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2018
14
Aug
Origins of Chaco’s Scarlet Macaws
New Paper: Origins of Chaco’s Scarlet Macaws
And for more than a thousand years, these birds were traded north into what is now the southwestern United States in exchange for turquoise. The ancient Pueblo great houses of Chaco Canyon (in what's now New Mexico) started importing scarlet macaws fro...
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2018
05
Jun
Update on Threats to Molen Reef
Threats to Utah’s Molen Reef
In the past, Orr, Bailey, and other rock art enthusiasts have been able to persuade the BLM to defer leasing while they conduct field work to document petroglyphs, habitation sites, and geoglyphs that might be impacted by development. But in 2018, guided by the Trump ...
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2017
06
Feb
Take Action: Greater Chaco Landscape
Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist
(February 20, 2017)—DEADLINE TO COMMENT IS MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, MST, 2/20/17.
(Original post dated 2/7/17 follows)
First, thank you to everyone who has contacted me and Archaeology Southwest about taking action on behalf of the Greater Chaco Landscape...
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2016
21
Oct
Department of Interior Announces BLM-BIA Cooperative Effort on Oil-Gas Leasing across the Greater Chaco Landscape
Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist
(October 21, 2016)—The Department of Interior has just announced that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Farmington Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be partnering on an expanded analysis of oil & gas leasing and management on public and tribal ...
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