PERSPECTIVES ON BEARS EARS:

Balancing Land Use, Culture, and Conservation

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Bears Ears General Information
Native American & Preservation Perspectives
Mining & Resource Availability Perspectives
Ranching & Land Management Perspectives

Bears Ears General Information

This is Bears Ears

With National Monuments Under Review, Bears Ears Is Focus Of Fierce Debate

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears Coalition Map

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Feds release final plan for Bears Ears National Monument

What Remains of Bears Ears

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The Fight for Bears Ears

Connection to Place; Bears Ears National Monument

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Bears Ears Restored

San Juan River Geo-Inquiry

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Trump official considers whether Utah site will stay national monument

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Bears Ears Perspectives - 6 News

Bears Ears Guided Tour

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Interior Department announces plans to change some national monuments

Bears Ears National Monument could lose its protection if Trump cancels it

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Native American & Preservation Perspectives

Explore Bears Ears Through Indigenous Voices

The Voices of Bears Ears

A Native Perspective on America’s Most Significant Unprotected Cultural Landscape

Trump signs orders to shrink Utah’s tribal lands, allow drilling, mining

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Indian tribe sues over river damage

Braiding Sweetgrass: Kinship Defined

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Bears Ears: A Story of Homelands

Bears Ears & Radioactive Waste: The White Mesa Mill Story

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Mining & Resource Availability Perspectives

Why A Colorado Uranium Company Lobbied To Shrink Bears Ears National Monument

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Oil, Gas, Coal and Mining Interests Stand to Gain from Trump’s Illegal Repeal

Losing a chunk of Bears Ears to mining and drilling leads to protests

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Power plant on reservation creates electricity, jobs, and pollution

Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Protected Utah Site, Emails Show

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Map of Active Mining Claims Around Bears Ears National Monument as of February 2018

Why Do We Need Mining Law Reform? Just Look to Grand Canyon’s Pinyon Plain Mine

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Ranching & Land Management Perspectives

Ranching around monuments in southern Utah

Utah leaders 'disappointed' in Biden's plan to restore Bears Ears, Grand Staircase

Monumental Mayhem

Conservation groups fear Utah’s Bears Ears could lose much of its land

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Rancher who sparked occupation of federal land in Oregon head to prison

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Zinke rides with cattle ranchers working on Bears Ears

Fact Sheet for Bears Ears Monument

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Acknowledgements

This unit was created by Jennifer Jenkins and Stuart Baggaley of Edith Bowen Laboratory School. We also express our gratitude to the numerous graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 students who contributed to designing and implementing this learning experience. Thank you to the Spencer Foundation for funding this work.