>>1167739I just visited Grand Staircase in November. The landscape there was unbelievable. It worries me what’s going to happen to it in the future given that there have been at least two oil pipeline leaks in the monument that went unreported by the company who is supposed to “self-regulate” due to the BLM having very little funding for oversight.
http://wilderness.org/blog/hikers-discover-unreported-oil-spill-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monumentNow let’s expand that to 1.5 million acres in an even bigger wilderness like ANWR, which is against the concept of a wilderness reserve in the first place, and carve up special areas like Bears Ears to boot. It’s unconscionable, like defacing an Ansel Adams original, a painting from Moran, or burning all the copies of “A Sand County Almanac.”
