Good-natured, humble and passionate were the descriptors that came up over and over again as local community members and friends reflected on last week’s loss of author and historian Jim Babbitt.
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Tucked into the towering, red rock canyons of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in southern Utah are more than 100,000 archaeological and cultural sites, hints of the... Read Original Story
(CNN)The US Senate unanimously approved Charles "Chuck" Sams III this week to be National Park Service's 19th director, which will end a nearly five-year lapse in leadership at the agency.
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Friday that the agency will create a process to review and replace racially derogatory terms used in the names of places on federal lands.
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Amid the recent skirmishes over revising the reconciliation bill, known as the Build Back Better Plan, lawmakers once again skipped a chance to reform the General Mining Law of 1872.
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The U.S. Geological Survey has published a study on uranium content in wells and springs in the Grand Canyon region, but the work is far from over.
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Eight federal agencies announced a new deal to coordinate efforts to protect Indigenous sacred sites, strengthening protections in an area where advocates have long said the government has fallen... Read Original Story
For decades, the U.S. Forest Service’s practice of putting out wildfires was a huge success. But the policy backfired, setting the stage for the massive destructive wildfires that have flared with... Read Original Story
