Researchers from multiple universities are collaborating with Tribal groups to create a virtual reality experience of sacred sites in Bears Ears. The Bears Ears Digital Cultural Heritage Initiative combines photogrammetry, ethnographic interviews, and community involvement to digitally preserve and interpret these important cultural landscapes.
Educate visitors on the trails about visiting sacred cultural sites with respect in Bears Ears National Monument. Become an Ambassador Volunteer to help protect living landscapes for generations to come. Sign up for…
Add another chapter to the long-running back and forth between the state of Utah and U.S. federal authorities over Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments: on August 24, the State of Utah…
The Utah School and Institutional Trust Administration hopes to conduct a large-scale land swap with the federal government, exchanging SITLA parcels within the recently designated Bears Ears National Monument for federal lands that…
On Friday, the Biden administration announced it will reverse the Trump administration’s reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, a series of sea canyons and…
On Oct. 8, President Joe Biden signed three proclamations restoring the former boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, and restoring protections to Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments, which had…
Indian Creek is an internationally renowned rock climbing destination and a go-to crag for many Moab climbers. The area, characterized by towering Wingate sandstone buttes fractured with thousands of “splitter” cracks that climbers…
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has recommended the full restoration of the original boundaries of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national monuments, which were reduced by former President Donald Trump in 2017….
Label: Public Land Photo: U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. [File photo] Since Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s visit to Southeast Utah in April, where she evaluated the boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears…
As visitation to the Colorado Plateau increases, it’s becoming particularly important to examine how education, storytelling, and media impact people’s behaviors and the landscape. This week, Science Moab speaks with author and storyteller…
Landscapes across the Colorado Plateau are not only physical, but cultural. Bears Ears, named for two enormous buttes, is one such place that has received increasing national attention. This week, we speak with…
The current unbridled growth of the tourism industrial complex in Moab and much of southeast Utah points out the need for urgent protection of our nearby county, state and federal public lands. Locally,…
Last week, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, former Democratic representative for New Mexico, visited Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southeastern Utah. The third Interior Secretary to consider the monuments’…
Newly-approved Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, formerly a Democratic representative for the state of New Mexico, will visit Utah this week to review the controversial boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand…
A group of Utah politicians issued a statement welcoming newly confirmed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s announcement of an upcoming visit to Utah. Haaland intends to tour Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments,…
