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Utah’s leaders once again allowed their deeply ingrained anti-federal-land-management ideology to, ahem, trump any sort of pragmatism, Jonathan Thompson writes.
Why are San Juan Hill and Dance Hall Rock mere stopovers along the Mormons’ 1879 journey worthy of protection, but not the Ancestral Puebloan “roads” that crisscross the landscape, or the countless ancient shrines or landforms that have played important roles in Indigenous peoples’ histories since time immemorial?
At Christmas, 1879, 250 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were on a mission to establish a settlement along the San Juan River in southeastern Utah.