On Monday, December 4th, President Donald Trump announced a reduction of the Bears Ears National Monument by as much as 90%. President Obama protected these mesas, cliffs, and canyons that are home to over 100,000 Native American archaeological and cultural sites. Some of these sites date back 12,000 BCE and the Obama Administration argued they have […]
Wilderness Interview Lab
Audrey Stuart, Liza Tungangui, Blake Slattengren Background According to the Wilderness Act of 1964, wilderness is described as “A place untrammeled by man; where man is a visitor who does not remain”. Although this term is widely misused, interpreted into many different ways, applied to many different spaces, and is a generally abstract idea, this […]
Wilderness Survey Lab
Audrey Stuart, Liza Tugangui, Blake Slattengren Introduction The notion of “wilderness” holds vastly different meanings for different people as shaped by our cultural influences. In recent years the concept of wilderness has been criticized by various environmentalists for lacking any scientific basis. For example, in the days of the American frontier the term used to […]