Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

I'm headed to the Bears Ears National Monument in a few weeks, so I figured I should do some more reading about the area. It's not new history to me, but a refresher never hurts, and many details were new. Title: The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness Author: David Roberts Publication Info: 2021, W.W. Norton. 336 pages. Source: Library Publisher's Blurb: The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It’s also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened by oil and gas drilling, unrestricted grazing, and invasion by Jeep and ATV, is at the center of the greatest environmental battle in America since the damming of the Colorado River to create Lake Powell in the 1950s. In The

  What's that you say? You're pretty sure slots are illegal in Utah? Well, not the kind I like! In fact, they thrive there, and in September I had some fun playing them. Well, okay, playing *in* them. Here's a bit of a photo essay from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, some of the most amazing landscape on earth (which, not to get too political, is under grave threat from the people currently in charge in DC). The expansive Navajo Sandstone of the Calf Creek wilderness Approach to Coyote Wash Now for some fun with slots! On the approach to Zebra Gulch Th The author in Zebra Gulch. Photo thanks to Zebra Guy, the nice hiker who coached me through and shared the photos! Zebra Gulch turned very wet and challenging. This final photo is about the point where I turned around and stowed my camera on dry ground! My hiking companion chest-deep. The water got more like neck-deep on us before we got through! So there you have it--My idea of slots worth playing with--and