BY JUDY FAHYS
U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell begins a three-day tour of southeastern Utah Thursday. She’s planning to visit archeological sites that would be protected in the proposed Bears Ears National Monument. She’s also meeting people who say local ideas should drive conservation, not Washington.
I’m riding in Jonah Yellowman’s SUV as he navigates a dusty dirt road. Deep redrock canyons filled with cliff dwellings are obscured in our dust. And we’re headed now toward the crux of the controversy, twin buttes at the forested crest of Cedar Mesa...