PinnedBill KeshlearBears Ears: Perhaps there’s a third wayThe strident brand of environmentalism that Edward Abbey embraced targeted both the producer (oil and gas drilling, mining and logging) and…·4 min read·Aug 13, 2018----
Bill KeshlearContested spaceBiden joins the ping-pong politics of Bears Ears National Monument·26 min read·Aug 22, 2022----
Bill KeshlearPing-pong protection: Is anything on the horizon that will truly safeguard Bears Ears?What say you President Biden? We’ve been down this road before·14 min read·Jan 24, 2021----
Bill KeshlearBeyond the familiar apocalytic boilerplate: About that drilling near Labyrinth CanyonUPDATE·7 min read·Dec 28, 2020----
Bill KeshlearDesignate it, publicize it and they will come … and destroy it: Of untouchable rhetoric and the…PART I: A latter-day David and Goliath saga·31 min read·Nov 30, 2020----
Bill KeshlearThe Grand Staircase Story: morality of mining, no-compromise environmentalists, unreliable sourcesLife’s but a walking shadow, a poor player·21 min read·Aug 6, 2020----
Bill KeshlearThe Way of the West: Culture displacement and appropriationThe Chuck-A-Rama anthropologist in me believes appropriation of the Navajo Way by even marginally affluent Americans, Navajo political…·18 min read·Mar 28, 2020----
Bill Keshlear2019 in Review: A sea change in San Juan County governanceLast February, I asked “Who’s the Boss in Utah’s Bears Ears Country?” The following six-part essay is an attempt to partially answer that…·29 min read·Jan 3, 2020----
Bill KeshlearTHE RHETORIC OF RETRIBUTION, THE POLITICS OF PAYBACKPolitical clout of newly empowered Navajo Democrats helps defeat proposal to study change of San Juan County (Utah) government25 min read·Nov 20, 2019----