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Tribes Unite to Protect the Bears Ears PLUS Community Conservation from Casamance to the Four Corners GRAND CANYON TRUST COLORADO PLATEAU FALL/WINTER A2015 dvocate Tribes Unite to Protect the Bears Ears PLUS Community Conservation from Casamance to the Four Corners The Future of Lake Powell 1 MESSAGE from the Chairman of the Board STEVE MARTIN In 1985, when the Grand Canyon Trust was formed, the situation on the ON THE COVER Colorado Plateau looked almost hopeless, with coal-fired power plant Horse riders from the Bit’ahnii Clan reenact the historic arrival of their ancestors at the Bears emissions enshrouding views, Glen Canyon Dam damaging beaches Ears summer camp. TIM PETERSON and riparian habitats in the Grand Canyon, 16 million tons of uranium timpetersonphotography.com tailings leaching into the Colorado River in Moab, and irresponsible grazing practices destroying fragile forest and desert ecosystems. If we EDITOR’S NOTE were going to protect the vast natural and cultural landscapes and life- The views expressed by the contributors in this ways of the plateau, land management practices and policies had to issue are solely their own and do not necessarily change. So a group of visionaries came together on a river trip through represent the views of the Grand Canyon Trust. the Grand Canyon and pledged to take action, founding the Grand Canyon Trust and melding science, principle and savvy to defend the Permission is hereby granted to reprint sections towering red rock cliffs and plummeting canyons we all cherish. of the Colorado Plateau Advocate for non-com- mercial purposes provided that nothing is altered or edited in any way and that an appropriate This edition of the Advocate celebrates the 30th anniversary of the credit line and copyright notice are included. Grand Canyon Trust, and highlights some of its many achievements. YOU CAN HELP the Grand Canyon Trust by In the next 30 years, an even greater effort is needed to protect this taking action on the issues presented in this place many call our greatest national treasure—and some of us are magazine by going to the “Take Action” section of our website. privileged to call home—and that’s where you can help. Rampant energy development, uranium mining, ill-conceived commercial tourism, climate change and drought, inefficient public lands policies, and paltry grandcanyontrust.org funding for land management all threaten this beloved region. ADVOCATE STAFF Your engagement and support are vital to defending the priceless land- EDITOR: Ashley Davidson scapes of the plateau. I invite you to enjoy this issue of the Advocate and ASSISTANT EDITOR: Ellen Heyn to help us achieve our vision of a healthy and prosperous region in the DESIGN: Joan Carstensen Design future by supporting the Trust with a financial contribution. Whether CARTOGRAPHY: Stephanie Smith you’ve been with us all along, or you’ve just joined as a new member, PRINTING: Arizona Lithographers your involvement and your gifts are essential to our success. Together, we can protect the diverse resources and communities of this special HEADQUARTERS place for another 30 years, and beyond. 2601 N. Fort Valley Road Flagstaff, AZ 86001 (928) 774-7488 ph (928) 774-7570 fax This publication is printed with soy-based inks. Protecting the wild heart of the West since 1985 Follow us: 2 contents 4 THE LAND IS WHAT I’M HERE FOR By Alastair Lee Bitsóí An intertribal coalition launches an 10 unprecedented effort to protect the Bears Ears COMMUNITY CONSERVATION By Kyra Busch with Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend and Tony Skrelunas From Casamance to Canada to the Colorado Plateau, empowering local communities to protect their own backyards. 14 MORE IS MORE By Pam Hait How a journalist’s love affair with red rock put her on a mission to protect it. TIM PETERSON 16 20 THE FUTURE OF LAKE POWELL By Richard Ingebretsen MD, PhD Would draining Lake Powell alleviate the West’s water woes? 22 A LONE WOOLF 29 By Kate Watters INVESTING WITH HEART Watercolor artist Suze Woolf By Edward Dee transforms Kane Ranch into a plein air studio How a new investment platform based KURT MARKUS on the Navajo concept of “Hozhó” could overcome the crippling legacy of the Bennett Freeze. JOIN OUR BOOK CLUB Love to read? Save your seat in the new Trust book club, with inaugural selections by BRUCE D. TAUBERT Kevin Fedarko and Judith Nies. THE NIGHT SHIFT: Your Call May Be Recorded 30 An interview with bat biologist Dr. Michael O’Farrell 3 The LAND is What I’m Here For By Alastair Lee Bitsóí It’s where Lehi, a lawmaker and Malcolm Lehi remembers the stories his father told him member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council, harvests chokecherries, about the Bears Ears Buttes and the deep cultural ties of knowledge passed down by his father, who taught Lehi where to find them. It’s mid-July and the berries are about the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to the mountainous knolls, the size of a quarter. “They’re ripe right now,” Lehi says, canyons, forests, water and wildlife of the Manti-La Sal adding that he told Willie Grayeyes, of Navajo Mountain, Utah, about the wild berries. Both men were attend- National Forest and surrounding public lands. ing an intertribal gathering of cultural leaders and Native families connected to the Bears Ears who want to see the region protected. 4 The Bears Ears Buttes at sunset. TIM PETERSON After learning the news, Grayeyes borrowed Lehi’s horse and rode west through the wet sagebrush and pine trees, away from the Bears Ears Buttes, to a hogan—a traditional wooden structure made from logs and mud— to see the berries for himself. The hogan, according to Lehi, is where his own family camped during traditional seasonal migrations. Known as “hooghan nimazi” in Navajo, the Utah Diné Bikéyah board chairman Willie hogan is a Navajo cultural site that Grayeyes (above) and Malcom Lehi, Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council member, address once sheltered 19th century Navajo assembled federal and tribal officials at the headman Chief Manuelito and the Bears Ears summer gathering. TIM PETERSON Bit’ahnii (Within His Cover) Clan. It 5 Eric Descheenie, co-chair of the Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition, addresses the Bears Ears summer gathering, including Kevin Washburn, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior, Arthur “Butch” Blazer, Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture in charge of the Forest Service, and Jonathan Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service. TIM PETERSON lies just a few miles away from Shash Many Navajos hid out to the area’s ruggedness and remote- Jaá (“the Bears Ears”). Manuelito, who ness. Presently, the U.S. Forest Service, was born in 1818 at the Bears Ears, is Bureau of Land Management, and best known for his role in brokering here from Kit Carson’s National Park Service jointly manage the 1868 treaty of Bosque Redondo, the area. This, however, could soon allowing the Navajo to return to their raiders, avoiding the change. homelands in the Four Corners; he The Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition, encouraged young Navajos to climb Long Walk, a testament led by a core group of five tribes and the educational ladder and protect the formally supported by 25 Colorado Navajo people. In her 2007 biography, to the area’s rugged- Plateau tribes brought together by Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies Native non-profit Utah Diné Bikéyah, of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita, is urging President Obama to protect historian Jennifer Nez Denetdale, her- ness and remoteness. approximately 1.9 million acres of pub- self a descendent of Manuelito, says: lic lands by designating a new Bears “Today, for both whites and Navajos, Ears National Monument co-managed albeit in different ways, Manuelito re- as well as edible wild onions in the by the tribes. Utah Diné Bikéyah has mains a symbol—the spirit of Navajo area. Some of these herbs are still used done extensive groundwork through resistance.” for healing in the Ute Mountain Ute local community organizing, includ- The hogan is one of over 100,000 Bear Dance and in Navajo ceremonies ing collecting data and documenting archeologically and culturally signif- like the Blessing/Beauty Way. interviews for cultural mapping of the icant sites in the Bears Ears area (see Both men will tell you how their an- Bears Ears region. Many of the tribes map on page 8), according to archae- cestors migrated with the seasons up have passed resolutions in support ologists who study the region. Tribes and down the Abajo Mountains—from of the idea within their respective fear that looters seeking to cash in on the canyon country near the banks of legislatures. It’s the only Native Ameri- Native American artifacts will further the San Juan River to Cedar Mesa and can-led push for a national monument desecrate cultural sites in the area, up to the Bears Ears Buttes. in the 109-year history of the Antiq- many of which have already been “I want to take the aboriginal lands uities Act. ransacked. back to our people,” Lehi said, explain- “The land is what I’m here for,” add- The Bears Ears are significant to both ing that Ute Mountain Utes historically ed Lehi, who had disassembled his Lehi and Grayeyes, whose ancestors herded livestock in the high country. weekend camp and was waiting for hunted deer, elk, and wild turkeys here, The Navajo call the region “Náhonidzó” Grayeyes to return from his berry hunt as their relatives do today. Tribal mem- (“the escaping place”); many Navajos to load his horse into its trailer. bers harvest medicinal herbs such as hid out here from Kit Carson’s raiders, Representatives of the Forest Ser- sage, juniper, and mountain tobacco, avoiding the Long Walk, a testament vice, Bureau of Land Management, 6 Bureau of Indian Affairs, National coalition’s best bet when it comes to Park Service and high-ranking Obama countering possible opposition from administration officials attended the Utah congressional leaders, as well July Bears Ears Intertribal Coalition as state leaders, ranchers, off-roaders meeting, which included members of and the uranium and oil and gas in- the Ute Mountain Ute, Northern Ute, dustries.
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