I’m just catching up with this story from the Salt Lake Tribune: During [Utah] Gov. Gary Herbert’s visit to Blanding, one of the poorest regions of the state, residents pleaded with him to keep open the Edge of the Cedars Museum State Park. The ancestral Puebloan site and official archaeological repository houses one of the largest…Continue Reading…
Five years ago this September I was fortunate to spend a week with a team of archaeologists who were surveying remote stretches of Utah’s Desolation Canyon. Half the crew set off on the Green River and the other half on horseback, working their way down the Tavaputs Plateau. (I’ll get back to those horse guys in…Continue Reading…
So on the one hand, we see the U.S. military accepting of climate change and coexisting peaceably with endangered species. On the other hand, there’s Utah: a bastion of inanity, where that ol timey sagebrush mentality never dies.
Last year, evidence from a DNA test was thought to have solved one of Utah’s oldest cold cases: the 1934 disappearance of Everett Ruess. National Geographic Adventure published a big, splashy exclusive on the 75-year old mystery. But some observers, most notably Kevin Jones, Utah’s state archaeologist, had reason to question the findings in the…Continue Reading…
The Utah legislature is fond of symbolic gestures. The latest is a beaut. It’s a resolution from the chamber’s Natural Resources Committee, urging the EPA not to proceed with plans to regulate greenhouse gases until a full and independent investigation of the climate data conspiracy and global warming science can be substantiated. Mike Noel, a…Continue Reading…