[hinckley buzzard]

I have missed most of Nevada but been all over Utah from I-70 south to Arizona. The land is so vast and empty that to designate it this way seems really redundant. On the other hand, it doesn't hurt anything, for the land is wide open to anyone who should want to traverse it. The petroglyphs and such are already protected by law. I am enough of a conservationist to not object to this protection, but in reality the whole point was to keep energy development out of the Bears Ears tract. This is an anti-energy action, not a conservation action. Do not be deceived.

[Red Boots]

Traverse it you still can, but what if you wanted to actually live there? They e locked up all the green areas in these desert states that could possibly be lived in. The rest of its just bare rock.

[Red Boots]

Traverse it you still can, but what if you wanted to actually live there? They e locked up all the green areas in these desert states that could possibly be lived in. The rest of its just bare rock.

[Elsie]

...whole point was to keep energy development out of the Bears Ears tract.

The nearby Natural Bridges area only has SOLAR power in use in all of the buildings; as seen in the lower portion of this picture.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B036'05.0%22N+110%C2%B000'49.5%22W/@37.6086546,-109.9774162,292m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d37.601383!4d-110.013744?hl=en

 

 

The main attractions are the natural bridges, accessible from the Bridge View Drive, which winds along the park and goes by all three bridges, and by hiking trails leading down to the bases of the bridges. There is also a campground and picnic areas within the park. Electricity in the park comes entirely from a large solar array near the visitors center. In 2007, the International Dark-Sky Association named Natural Bridges the first International Dark-Sky Park, which is a designation that recognizes not only that the park has some of the darkest and clearest skies in all of the United States, but also that the park has made every effort to conserve the natural dark as a resource worthy of protection.^[5][6] To date, Natural Bridges has the only night sky monitored by the NPS Night Sky Team that rates a Class 2 on the Bortle Dark-Sky Scale, giving it the darkest sky ever assessed.^[5][7]

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridges_National_Monument