I’m not going to ‘let evil win’: Patagonia’s billionaire owner says he plans to sue Trump
(cue music from West Side Story) RUMBLE!!
IIRC, it was Patagonia that was leading the charge to move the Outdoor Retailer Association’s convention out of Utah. shrug
Hopi/Zuni have an equal claim on being “first”, both being of the Pueblo cultural group that has lived in the area since at least 8000 years ago. We don’t know which prehistoric pueblo groups became which historic ones, the thirteenth century being a big break point that really shook things up. The different kiva types in Butler Wash Ruin show that it was mixed at least a little even back then. The Hopi and Zuni languages aren’t even in the same family, so I doubt the names would be anything alike.
Ute/Navajo have an roughly equal claim to living in the area in historic times, with the Navajo only being forced south of the San Juan in the 1930s and part of Comb Wash being Ute tribal land right up until Obama’s proclamation. Not sure what the current status of that bit is.
Anyone know if any other country on earth has ever decided to reverse the protection on nationally protected sites?
I’m having a hard time imagining ANY other country doing so. Even more so that it would actually be celebrated.
(I guess I *could *imagine it in Russia, where no one even tells the serfs about it, and any that object get gulag ed.)
But Americans won’t do that work. We need more immigrants!
I don’t know about other countries, but this is not the first time America has reduced the size of a national monument.
Cedar Mesa and Tank Mesa are the parts that the Oil/Gas industry wants leases on, and after I saw what happens in my home town I wouldn’t wish that on any federal ground.
Hopefully the tar sands never become economically viable in that area of the world.