The Bears Ears
A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
18 November 2022
Description
A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save an American national monument
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 centre of the greatest environmental battle in America since the damming of the Colorado River to create Lake Powell in the 1950s.
In The Bears Ears, acclaimed adventure writer David Roberts takes readers on a tour of his favourite place on earth as he unfolds the rich and contradictory human history of the 1.35 million acres of the Bears Ears domain. Weaving personal memoir with archival research, Roberts sings the praises of the outback he’s explored for the last twenty-five years.
Reviews
"David Roberts has long been one of our most thoughtful and adventurous scribes of the American outback and, with The Bears Ears, he’s written a love song, bold and stirring and plangent, to what just might be our continent’s most spellbinding wilderness." — Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder and In the Kingdom of Ice
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