Residents line the street outside of Page City Hall on January 14, 2026, to protest 500 acres of recreational land sold to a developer, Huntley LLC, for a $10 billion data center. Photo by Beth Henshaw Dispatch from Page Citizens in Page, Arizona Continue to Protest Data Center Development by Beth Henshaw – 02.05.2026 – […]
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Navajo teen Teyana Begay (far right) organized a protest in downtown Page, which took place on Nov. 1, opposing the sale of 500 acres of recreational land to Huntley LLC for a $10 billion data center project. Photo by Beth Henshaw Dispatch from Page Page, Ariz. Citizens File Referendum to Veto City Council’s Decision to
Photo of the Returning Rapids expedition group at the take-out at Halls Crossing, May 2025. Photo by Mike DeHoff Essay River to Reservoir with the Returning Rapids Project by Beth Henshaw – 10.23.2025 – 15 min. read On a sunny morning this past May, as a thicket of tamarisk swayed in the wind along the
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In-Depth Healthy Land, Healthy People Tribal Co-Stewardship Shows Benefits for Public Lands and Native Communities by Ian Marynowski – 5.15.2025 – 15 min. read On Jan. 11, 2025, hundreds of people gathered on the steps of Utah’s Capitol Building for the Rally for Public Lands—a show of support for preserving Utah’s national monuments, national forests
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In-Depth Travel at Your Own Risk BLM and Garfield County continue sparring match over Hole-in-the-Rock Road by Ian Marynowski – 07.03.2024 – 15 min. read Last summer, a new symbol highlighting the longstanding roads dispute between Garfield County and the Bureau of Land Management sprouted at the entrance to Hole-in-the-Rock Road (HITR), east of Escalante,
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Utah declared a no-holds-barred open season against mountain lions almost a year ago. What happens to a keystone species when wildlife laws favor politics over science?
Essay What Does it Mean to Be Wild?: A trip to a bear den with wildlife biologists yields more questions than answers by Emily Arntsen – 8.17.2023 – 20 min. read In the doldrums of late summer, when the Book Cliffs are thirsty and barren, black bears clamber down to Green River, Utah, to feast
In-Depth Hyper-visitation, the Fate of the National Parks, and Tourism Toxification in a Small Town by Christopher Ketcham – 04.12.2023 – 25 min. read The trouble at Arches National Park starts at the entrance during the spring and summer, when visitation is at its highest. First, there’s a 40-minute queue of idling traffic to reach
Take a wrong turn to the Top of The World off-road area near Moab and you could find yourself at a metal gate—ornate, yet sturdy—bearing the University of Utah’s blocky, red “U” and a sign: Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa…
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State Route 211 traverses rolling desert shrubland in Southeast Utah, passing rust and buff-colored sandstone domes and the foothills of the Abajo Mountains…
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