Nostalgia tour continues: What was part of Bear's Ears
Feb 9, 2020 11:12:04 #
Bear's Ears National Monument was set aside by President Obama as a 1.35million acre landscape protecting the greatest concentration of Anasazi sites in the southwest. He did this under the authority of the 1906 Antiquities Act (many of our greatest National Parks started as National Monuments by Presidential proclamation i.e. Grand Canyon, Acadia, Grand Teton and EVERY National Park in Utah except Canyonlands). Trump, wanting to please his friends in the extractive industries, reduced Bears Ears by 85%. These photos are from Hammond Canyon which I first visited in 1999 on a rugged week long backpack. This was a much mellower 3 day trip using the horrible 4wd Cream Pots road to get close to Hammond Canyon. The "highlight" of this trip was Three Finger Ruin, which I now, in my old age, consider the finest combination of well preserved ruin in a spectacular setting, that I have ever seen. The first photo of a ruin with pictographs is in the eastern end of Hammond Canyon about 2 hours east of Three Finger Ruin. Tomorrow some close ups of the ruin.
Feb 9, 2020 11:15:53 #
davesit
Loc: Media, PA
We were there last year and it is a wonderful and holy place. Thanks for sharing the great photos.
Feb 9, 2020 11:17:04 #
Feb 9, 2020 11:37:39 #
Excellent and beautiful photos. Hopefully we can undo the damage that Trump has done to the Nat. Park funding.
Feb 9, 2020 11:53:10 #
Feb 9, 2020 12:57:47 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
Amazing shots! I sure hope this area is still protected!
It's not thanks to Trump.
Feb 10, 2020 06:40:41 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
Amazing shots! I sure hope this area is still protected!
Me too.
Feb 10, 2020 06:50:18 #
Nice series.Feb 10, 2020 07:18:49 #
Feb 10, 2020 07:36:41 #
Smudgey wrote:
Excellent and beautiful photos. Hopefully we can undo the damage that Trump has done to the Nat. Park funding.
Feb 10, 2020 08:10:29 #
Feb 10, 2020 08:45:12 #
Smudgey wrote:
Excellent and beautiful photos. Hopefully we can undo the damage that Trump has done to the Nat. Park funding.
Shame, shame on all that damage (facetious)…..President Trump signed a wide-ranging public lands bill Tuesday that creates five new national monuments and expands several national parks.
The new law also adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which supports conservation and outdoor recreation projects nationwide. It’s the largest public lands bill Congress has considered in a decade, and it won large bipartisan majorities in the House and Senate.
More than 100 land and water conservation bills were combined to designate more than 350 miles of river as wild and scenic, and to create nearly 700,000 acres of new recreation and conservation areas.
Feb 10, 2020 09:14:44 #
wilderness wrote:
It's not thanks to Trump.
Do you have proof of this and can you show your source of information before accusing someone of something that may or may not be exactly true I’ve never heard of this.
Our national parks are our national treasures and should always be protected I think if he was to do something like that there would be an outcry against it I find this hard to believe.
Feb 10, 2020 09:46:03 #
riderxlx wrote:
Do you have proof of this and can you show your source of information before accusing someone of something that may or may not be exactly true I’ve never heard of this.
Our national parks are our national treasures and should always be protected I think if he was to do something like that there would be an outcry against it I find this hard to believe.
Our national parks are our national treasures and should always be protected I think if he was to do something like that there would be an outcry against it I find this hard to believe.
Where have you been. This has been covered by every major media outlet. There has been a HUGE outcry about this, the largest rollback of Public lands protection in America's history. We ( Patagonia Corp., environmental groups and 5 Native American tribes separate lawsuits were rolled into one) are currently fighting this in the courts where we won the first 2 battles (where the suit would be heard and Trump's attempt to have the suit dismissed).
Feb 10, 2020 10:03:44 #
wilderness wrote:
Where have you been. This has been covered by every major media outlet. There has been a HUGE outcry about this, the largest rollback of Public lands protection in America's history. We ( Patagonia Corp., environmental groups and 5 Native American tribes separate lawsuits were rolled into one) are currently fighting this in the courts where we won the first 2 battles (where the suit would be heard and Trump's attempt to have the suit dismissed).
Outcry? I don't disagree with the establishment of Bear's Ears NM, the out cry should have been whenObama 'arbitrarily confiscated' 1.35 million acres to create the Bears Ears National Monument. His action came despite ALL elected representatives from the area (from the governor and state legislators to the members of Congress from Utah) being opposed to the action....In all, Obama has taken 554,590,000 acres of land and sea out of use for private citizens and out of the 'deliberative' processes of government.
I believe in Conservation and environment protection of natural areas but it has to be a deliberative process, not a unilateral action by someone looking for a legacy, when ALL parties agree to the final outcome. If Obama had the ultimate right to 'confiscate' this area....then President Trump has the right to reconsider land uses....last comment on this subject
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