GLIMPSES OF HARD-EDGED ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICKING IN SOUTHEASTERN UTAH
Unfiltered comments of environmental activists, incendiary remarks of a political leader and their tacit acceptance by his prominent tribal-affiliated nonprofit, and dodgy electioneering
(Much of this appears in the October/November edition of the Canyon Country Zephyr, an online publication that focuses on southeastern Utah. I added a bit more after the Zephyr’s publication deadline.)
BLUFF, UTAH — On the road home from Monument Valley recently I stopped in at Friends of Cedar Mesa’s Bears Ears Education Center in Bluff, Utah, its home base.
It’s housed in a nondescript former bar renovated by the nonprofit on the main drag through town, between the upscale Desert Rose Resort, Recapture Lodge, a smattering of restaurants and gas stations, and a re-creation for tourists of historical Fort Bluff.
I wanted to find out what kind of information people get when they just walk in off the street. Is it factually correct? Does it align with information from other visitor’s centers in the area? Is the information presented as one viewpoint among many on how to preserve sacred archeological artifacts and unique geological formations?
