Bears Ears National Monument
by Chuck Mountain
Title
Bears Ears National Monument
Artist
Chuck Mountain
Medium
Digital Art - Adobe Photoshop And Illustrator
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[There is a new president in office now, but I decided to leave my comments intact].
I am posting this digital painting as a positive protest to the presidential reduction of the Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. I am appalled and angry. First of all, these monuments are public lands and some are tribal lands, and are not subject to presidential fiats.
Secondly, no amount of money from mining and logging could compensate for their destruction. Most of you—my more recent friends here in the east—have not seen these places with your own eyes. You haven't touched the ancient rock, examined the massive or delicate structures up close, or cast your mind back on the millions of years it took to create these wonders.They are a true national treasure. They belong to all of us collectively. And they are quite fragile. Once they are destroyed, there is no way to restore them.
Here I will quote extensively from the Wikipedia description of Bears Ears:
[Quote] Bears Ears National Monument is a United States National Monument located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, established by President Barack Obama by presidential proclamation on December 28, 2016. The monument protects 1,351,849 acres (547,074 ha) of public land surrounding the Bears Ears, a pair of mesas. The name of the region is the same in each of the native languages represented there; the names are listed in the presidential proclamation as "Hoon’Naqvut, Shash Jáa [sic], Kwiyagatu Nukavachi, Ansh An Lashokdiwe" meaning 'Bears Ears'.
The area within the monument is largely undeveloped and contains a wide array of historic, cultural and natural resources. The monument is co-managed by the Bureau of Land Management and United States Forest Service (through the Manti-La Sal National Forest), along with a coalition of five local Native American tribes; the Navajo Nation, Hopi, Ute Mountain Ute, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni, all of which have ancestral ties to the region. The monument borders Canyonlands National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and surrounds Natural Bridges National Monument. The monument includes the Valley of the Gods, Indian Creek Canyon, the western part of the Manti-La Sal National Forest's Monticello unit, and the Dark Canyon Wilderness.
On June 12, 2017 Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke "proposed significantly scaling back the borders" of Bears Ears, a move unprecedented in the history of U.S. National Monuments. Local farmers and ranchers want a "rollback of the protected areas"; others want to drill for oil.
On December 4, 2017, President Donald Trump ordered a major reduction in the monument's boundaries, reducing its size by 85 percent. Conservationists plan to challenge the legality of this action in federal court. [Unquote]
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December 5th, 2017
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