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Amache concentration camp commencement: Honoring internee Marion Konishi

In protest of racism in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Twelve years earlier, Marion Konishi gave a speech. Who was Marion Konishi and why is...

DATE: Mar 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The challenging task of changing place names on public lands

Last month, the Department of the Interior asked for nominations for a new Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names. The goal is to replace derogatory names on millions of acres a...

DATE: Feb 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

A dark day for democracy

Teaching the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

DATE: Jan 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

The Bears Ears shuffle

Preservation vs. exploitation in southeast Utah, a five-year review

DATE: Dec 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Harry Goulding, Monument Valley, Hollywood and yellowcake

A Durango man’s complicated legacy on the Navajo Nation

DATE: Nov 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Scourge of the West: ‘Wild’ vs. feral horses on public lands

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has it wrong. Like other well-meaning, environmental-leaning Americans, he thinks that wild horses on federal public lands deserve special considerations. It’s time...

DATE: Oct 9, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Tales from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim

Fewer visitors make the trek to this side of the canyon, which has its own rich history

DATE: Sep 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Go with the FLOW: Fort Lewis College launches new river education program

Fort Lewis College has established a new signature program at the heart of outdoor education and experiential learning in the Four Corners. The FLOW program, or Fort Lewis on Water, is about...

DATE: Aug 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Saving great landscapes of the American West

Conservation Lands Foundation promotes grassroots approach to protecting lands

DATE: Jul 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Making Bears Ears whole: The big swap with Utah state lands

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and President Joe Biden are considering the restoration of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument. Native American tribes and environmental organizations ...

DATE: Jun 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Al and Betty: Citizen scientists

Botanists discover Four Corners plants

DATE: May 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Tale of a transferred transfer station: Talking trash in San Juan County, Utah

Nobody can dispute the dollars. Or the slap at Native peoples. In a sordid history of broken treaties with tribes, this has a new twist – taking away a transfer station (or a waste dump) tha...

DATE: Apr 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels