Patagonia has been shaping opinions on land use and outdoor recreation in the state for more than a decade, but that may just be the tip of the mountain.
around the globe for generations to come. In Utah, it should keep Patagonia in the fight to protect Bears Ears and may even allow the company to play a larger role in determining how the state preserves and manages its public lands going forward.
Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Peter Metcalf, president of Black Diamond CEO, addresses the crowd, as Lawmakers and environmental and public lands advocates rally against the public lands transfer in the capitol rotunda, Monday, March 2, 2015 That same show, years later, first thrust Patagonia’s connection to Utah into the national spotlight., which provided grants to grassroots programs like the one it gave to Friends of Cedar Mesa in 2012. Ewing’s group supported a movement spearheaded by a coalition of five Indigenous tribes to gain federal protection of 1.4 million acres of culturally, recreationally and yes, minerally rich land near Blanding.
A year after the monument was created, Trump acquiesced to state lawmakers’ requests. He slashed Bears Ears to 15% of its original size while also cutting in half the 1.7-million-acre Grand Staircase Escalante, a nearby area that had been given national monument status in 1996 by former President Bill Clinton. Thethat interests in oil and gas mining in protected parts of Bears Ears factored into the Trump administration’s decision to shrink the monuments.
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