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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Dallan Evans took a final stroke with his shearing clippers across the ram’s back, and a creamy fleece…
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Deep in the gorges of Horseshoe Canyon, a remote offshoot of Utah’s Canyonlands National Park in the Hans Flat region of eastern Wayne County, an animal wheezes and whimpers as if choking…
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In mid-September, five Department of Energy (DOE) employees and a journalist toured the Cactus Rat Group area of the Thompson-Yellow Cat Mining District…
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A thin haze appeared in the afternoon between our rubber boats and distant fins of burnt-orange rock, while a hot wind touched our faces, hands…
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When Richard Gilbert bolted a new climbing route directly over an ancient petroglyph panel he mistook as graffiti in March 2021, the Access Fund, a national climbing advocacy group…
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