The Grand Canyon is nowhere near the Grand Escalante and has nothing to do with the place. But pictures at Grand Escalante would have been nowhere near as dramatic as these.
Posted on 12/04/2018 11:09:45 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a federally protected area found in central southern Utah.
Designated in 1996 by President William J. Clinton, it was recently reduced in size by President Donald J. Trump in a proclamation that turned the one large monument into three smaller ones.
A long-term, standardized study of the bees had been conducted from 2000–2003, revealing 660 species. The bee communities of the area are characterized by being spatially heterogeneous; most of the bees occur in isolated areas, with only a few being both abundant and widespread.
Here we examine what affect the recent resizing of the monument has on the number, and ecology, of the bees now excluded from monument boundaries. Using the new monument boundaries and the geographic coordinates associated with each bee, we derived new species lists for each of the three monuments, and compared them to each other, and to the excluded lands.
All three monuments now protect unique faunas, with Bray–Curtis similarity values not exceeding 0.59%. Each monument now harbors species not found in the other two monuments. We found that 84 bee species are no longer protected by any of the three monuments. These 84 species were not concentrated in one area that is now excluded, but were scattered throughout the newly excluded lands. For some of the excluded bee species, there is no evidence that they are rare or imperiled, being widespread throughout the west.
However, there is a concentration of bees in the southern and eastern former monument lands that represent range extensions from nearby hot deserts. In addition to numerous range extensions, the list of excluded bees also contains several undescribed species (newly discovered species that have not yet been named and described by taxonomists) and morphospecies (individuals that are morphologically distinct, but that require additional research before species designations can be made). This indicates that the bee communities housed in these excluded areas would benefit from additional scientific inquiry. The areas now excluded from monument protections house a greater proportion of the original GSENM bee community than any of the three new monument units.
We conclude this paper by discussing what the smaller monuments might mean for bee conservation in this hot spot of bee biodiversity and suggest that bee communities here and elsewhere should be taken into account when conservation decisions are being made.
Some ddt should clear them out.
opening up the lands doesn’t do a damn thing to the bees.
Yup, but hey, don’t let that empirical evidence deny these eco freaks of their narrative!
The Grand Canyon is nowhere near the Grand Escalante and has nothing to do with the place. But pictures at Grand Escalante would have been nowhere near as dramatic as these.
Esta mierda otra vez? Are bees on the endangered species list now because econazis ran out ran out of birds, small reptiles and fish to further their agenda? I’m pretty sure that since bees fly, they can’t be kept out of-or in-an “excluded area”-that whole argument sounds ridiculous...
Every other person out here has a couple of bee hives that provide honey-there are plenty of bees living here in natural hives in the woods, so those neighbors’ hives are populated with wild-caught bees that came from those woods in a swarm-my neighbor up the road got lucky a couple of days ago when a swarm congregated on her screen door-she called a local beekeeper-he brought a hive box, confirmed that there was a queen and got the swarm into the hivebox and set it up by the 4 apple trees in the yard-for $30, my neighbor now has a source of honey for her use or for sale/barter. There are two commercial apiaries nearby where you can buy live bees and hive boxes as well as honey.
We all know what this is.
Linking Trumps' park policies to the alleged demise of bees.
The left never stops trying to manufacture a political angle to their agenda and just adding, 'TRUMP' adds to the impact.
The goal is to set the narrative; Trumps' policies are killing bees.
The other source of this coal was owned by the Riady family in Indonesia. When the US source was deemed untouchable, the value of the Riady family coal source holdings increased exponentially.
James Riady was convicted of funneling millions of dollars illegally into Clinton's presidential coffers in 1992. Hoping to tap that source of illegal money further, Clinton took this "environmentally sensitive" land off the market, enriching his friends, the Riadys.
That is exactly what this is about-but these people don’t seem to have learned anything-if their push to turn the whole country into a nature park to save little lizards and fish, cute owls, etc didn’t totally impress people, why would they think making the appeal for a stinging insect most city people are terrified of would make it happen-just say the words “killer bees” at the mall or other crowded place in a city and there will be a rush for wasp and bee spray-not a rush to save the bees...
Once again Trump is found to be the protector of the innocent and the enemy of the corrupt. Huzzah!
That should've been the first sentence.
What’s the problem? BEES are not native to the New World. In the Frontier days they were called, by the Indians, “White man’s flies” and were a sign white men were now living in the area.
“Grand Staircase-Escalante was one of two sources globally for clean burning coal. “
I learn so much from my much smarter Freeper FRiends. I looked this up and learned the backstory. Wow. What creeps.
Thanks for another nugget of truth and wisdom.
We spent a week there driving our suv around. Some areas are just spectacularly beautiful. There is NOTHING there. There are tens of millions of acres of nothing. One day we drove 100 miles of rock/dirt roads and saw 2 other people (near the end of the day). NOTHING!!!The criminal rapist took those lands to help his friends the riordis in Indonesia who own low sulphur coal there.
You’re welcome. Always new dirtbag things to learn about the Clintons.
I have been in that general area, too. And many parts of Utah. It can be scary desolate in many areas of Utah. Lovely and frightening all at once.
Another BIG plus is that there are very few LIBs around.
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