The Tribal Coalition Fighting to Save Monarch Butterflies
Habitat loss and climate change are decimating the species. What can the U.S. learn from Oklahoma tribes’ efforts to restore their migratory path?
Butterflies winter at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico.
Seventeen years ago, Jane Breckinridge came home. A citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation with a great-grandmother who was Euchee, Breckinridge had left Oklahoma after high school to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she decided to stay after graduation. Some two decades later, she’d secured a good-paying job in publishing, working as a vice president on the business side of a magazine. She had a nice house in a pleasant neighborhood, an office in a shiny downtown Minneapolis building complete with a heated parking spot in the basement garage the works. “And then I really just sort of chucked it all away to come live at the end of a dirt road,” she said with
A Sacred Place Undone by Trump Must Be Saved by Biden
Bears Ears is one of the nation’s most compelling and mysterious landscapes and a place of worship for Native Americans.
By David Roberts
Mr. Roberts is the author of “The Bears Ears: A Human History of America’s Most Endangered Wilderness
,” published this week.
Feb. 26, 2021
Valley of the Gods at the Bears Ears National Monument, in Utah.Credit.Sumiko Scott/Moment, via Getty Images
The American West embraces more than its share of spectacular landscapes. But there’s nothing else quite like the vast swath of canyons, mesas, sandstone spires and arches that stretches some 80 miles from north to south in the southeast corner of Utah, ranging in altitude from sagebrush flats to pinyon-and-juniper forests and old growth stands of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir.
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Letter: Protecting Utah land can help heal our planet
FILE - Two buttes that make up the namesake for Utah s Bears Ears National Monument are shown on Dec. 28, 2016, in southeastern Utah. With Joe Biden s capture of the White House comes the likelihood that Utah s two big national monuments will be restored to their original boundaries, reopening yet another front in the West s public lands wars. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
By Jennifer Fegely | The Public Forum
| Feb. 17, 2021, 1:00 p.m. | Updated: 3:08 p.m.
I applaud the Tribune’s recent editorial highlighting the opportunity for our new local and federal administrations to protect and celebrate Utah as the Public Lands State.
A rocky corner in southern Utah has brought 5 tribes together. An executive order is reviving effort to protect them
A rocky corner in southern Utah has been the focal point of protests and political battles for years. A recent move by the Biden administration is giving Native tribes hope that a broken promise could be mended.
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden ordered federal officials to review the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument a sprawling region rich in red rock canyons, cliff dwellings and numerous archeological sites that former President Donald Trump drastically shrunk in size (December 4, 2017) only 11 months after its official designation (December 28, 2016).