![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To read the opening sentence of each paragraph creates a prose poem: This proclamation has given voice to an evolving narrative of beauty and change, both human and wild, that has been visited upon this burnished landscape of sandstone and sage, mountains and canyons throughout time, deep time. Too often the politics of place obscures the spirit of a place. Within this historic document the reader will find a language more akin to poetry than public policy, well worth reading out loud around a dinner table or campfire. Not only is this a beautiful gesture in the name of the Antiquities Act, but the opening paragraph of the proclamation is a beautiful description of the land itself: “Rising from the center of the southeastern Utah landscape and visible from every direction are twin buttes so distinctive that in each of the native languages of the region their name is the same… ‘Bears Ears.’” ![]() On Wednesday, December 28, 2016, President Barack Obama established the Bears Ears National Monument. The beauty of the Bears Ears National Monument proclamation: a creation story. White Mesa Cultural and Conservation Area. ![]()
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