** The road to 30 goes through Avi Kwa Ame
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021
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Fort Mojave Tribe member Paul Jackson, Jr. Center for Western Priorities ([link removed])
In southern Nevada, the Fort Mojave Tribe is leading the effort to protect a new 380,000 national monument, Avi Kwa Ame. The proposed monument would encompass Spirit Mountain, which is sacred to tribal members, and protect some of the most biologically diverse land in the Mojave Desert.
The latest short film ([link removed]) in the Center for Western Priorities' Road to 30: Postcards ([link removed]) multimedia series takes us to Avi Kwa Ame ([link removed]) , where Fort Mojave members Paul Jackson, Jr. and Nora McDowell explain why the area is so important.
“It's like a giant medicine cabinet—we used everything,” Jackson says. “To most people when they come here, that's all they see is dead, you know, useless plants, a desert. But to us, it wasn't. We made a life out here. That's why we were able to survive.”
Avi Kwa Ame is threatened by development and ongoing vandalism, which is why the Fort Mojave Tribe is asking President Biden to use the Antiquities Act to protect it as a national monument. Watch the film ([link removed]) to see and hear more from Avi Kwa Ame, and listen to this episode of The Landscape podcast ([link removed]) to go inside the Road to 30 project and learn about more landscapes that can help America reach the goal of protecting 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030.
** The Uinta basin is hemorrhaging methane
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New research from the University of Utah ([link removed]) finds that the Uinta Basin is among the worst places in the country when it comes to methane pollution. The Salt Lake Tribune's Brian Maffly reports ([link removed]) that as much as 8% of the region's natural gas production escapes into the atmosphere, a massive waste of publicly-owned resources that also accelerates climate change.
Quick hits
** What happens when the lure of outdoor recreation pulls more people onto tribal lands?
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Colorado Sun ([link removed])
** Ancient juniper trees illegally cut in New Mexico monument
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Associated Press ([link removed])
** Washington Post’s “Lost Local News” issue highlights Idaho grizzly bears and a dust controversy in Utah
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Washington Post ([link removed]) [Grizzly Bears] | Washington Post ([link removed]) [Dust]
** State threatens fines against gold mine that’s leaking heavy metals into drinking water sources
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Colorado Sun ([link removed])
** The Road to 30: Postcard from Avi Kwa Ame
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Center for Western Priorities ([link removed])
** Methane leaks go undetected in Utah’s Uinta basin
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Salt Lake Tribune ([link removed])
** Community science initiative uses cell phones to document a changing landscape
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The Journal ([link removed])
** Colorado’s teacher of the year uses the outdoors as her classroom
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Chalkbeat Colorado ([link removed])
Quote of the day
Our elders have been looking at ways they can protect this place since the early establishment of our government back in 1956. This particular area here, Grapevine Canyon, we have thousands of petroglyphs on the cliffs and the walls here that were put here by our people, our ancestors. There's people that come here and try to chisel off portions of the rock writing that exist out in this area.”
—Nora McDowell ([link removed]) , former Fort Mojave Tribe Chairwoman
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Stunning fall view of Pierce National Wildlife Refuge in the Columbia Gorge, as seen from atop Beacon Rock in Washington.
This view, captured this month from the 848-foot-tall Beacon Rock looking east, shows Hardy Creek winding through the refuge’s deciduous woodlands of ash and Oregon white oak.
— photo: Brent Lawrence/USFWS
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