This is the Forty-fourth diary in my “ Expanding the National Parks” series. Prior Diaries are linked at the bottom of the diary. Last time I was in Texas, this time I am in Utah, the Beehive state. Utah has tons of federal land owned by the federal government within its borders — 57.4%, third among the 50 states, only Nevada — 84.5%- and Alaska - 69.1%- have more federal holdings. Currently , Utah has 5 national parks, 8 national monuments , 7 national forests, 3 wildlife refuges, and 6 historic sites and other NPS units. I will recommend adding several new monuments to Utah’s tally, in addition I will not recognize Trump’s reductions to Bears Ears or Grand Staircase Escalante. They will be listed at their pre- Trump sizes for the purposes of this diary.
Utah
Total Area 84 897 sq miles
Land Area 82 170 sq miles
Water Area 2 727 sq miles
Coastline- 0 miles
Additional Monuments — 4
ADDITIONAL MONUMENTS -4
* San Rafeal Swell Estimated Area 3 million acres
Proposed as a monument during the early days of the Bush 43 administration, the Swell is an uplifted area of layered rocks in Central Utah covering a 75 by 40 mile area, with canyons, buttes and mesas spread throughout the area. Surrounding the Swell is 1.5 million acres of wilderness study areas, including them all within the monuments border is the next best thing to wilderness status. Currently, most of the Swell is owned by the Bureau of Land Management, they would continue to manage the monument after designation.
* Glen Canyon Estimated area 1.3 million acres
Currently a recreational area, the area is famous as America’s “lost national park” as the area was sacrificed to damming in the 1950s in order to prevent dams being built in the Grand Canyon, and the areas beauty was only really discovered until after the process of damming the area had started. . Granting it monument status would be a step towards national park status, with the eventual removal of Glen Canyon dam allowing the waters of the Colorado River to flow naturally once more through the area.Monument status would also fill in the gap between Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escanlante NMs, created a contiguous patch of almost 5 million protected acres.
*Bonnevile Salt Flats Estimated Area 30000 acres
Would designate the BLM -owned portions of the Salt Flats, including the Bonneville Raceway, as a national monument to conserve as much of the salt flats west of the Great Salt Lake as possible. the flats are some of the largest remnants of Lake Bonneville, which existed until 14500 years ago, and which was deeper ( over 1000 feet) than any of the existing Great Lakes, and at nearly 20000 sq miles in area was nearly the size of Lake Michigan.
* Golden Spike estimated area 3000 acres
Would re-designate the existing Historic site as a monument, to honor the 1869 ceremony which formally joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, creating the first transcontinental railroad in the US. Rob Bishop has proposed National Historic Park status for the site, although whether his bill will actually pass now that the Democrats control the House is uncertain.
EXISTING AREAS
NATIONAL PARKS-5
* Arches Established 1929 Covers 76 679 acres
Established by President Hoover in 1929 as a monument covering 4500 acres. the monument gradually was expanded by ensuing presidents, the most notable expansion belonging to Lyndon Johnson, who added nearly 50000 acres to the monument as one of his very last acts as president. Congress upgraded Arches to a national park in 1971, in the process shrinking it by about 6000 acres. the park contains over 2000 arches, the largest concentration of natural arches in the world. The arches are extremely delicate, so climbing on them is forbidden. Arches is among the nation’s most popular national parks so it was no surprise that Arches was chosen as Utah’s representative in the national Park quarters collection. Arches was the third quarter released in 2014. Over 1.5 million visitors visited the park in 2017
* Bryce Canyon Established 1928 Covers 35 835 acres
Established as a monument by President Harding in 1923 covering over 7000 acres, it was upgraded and expanded by Congress in 1928 to national park status, the final additions to the park would be added in the 1930s. The area is not actually a canyon but a series of natural amphitheaters which are the result of headward erosion, rather than erosion of a central stream, which forms canyons.
The area got its name after the Mormon Church sent settler Ebenezer Bryce to settle in the area. Latter settlers started to call the area Bryce’s Canyon, and the name stuck. Preservation efforts to protect the area started after the area became famous in the latter part of the 1910s, but NPS director Stephen Mather didnt like the idea of a national monument or park, he suggested it become a state park instead .
But both the Utah Governor and legislature pushed for national status, and Mather relented on his opposition. Harding declared it a monument( which would end up being his 8th and last monument, as he died that August) and Congress spent the next 4 years buying up all the land within the proposed park area , before opening the park in February 1928. the CCC put in infrastructure and roads in the 1930s, Rim Road, one of the parks most famous scenic drives, was built by the Corp in 1934 and is still used today. the park was managed from Zion NP until 1956 when Bryce Canyon got its own superintendent. Over 2.5 million people visited the park in 2017.
* Canyonlands Established 1964 Covers 337 598 acres
The largest of Utah’s 5 national parks, Canyonlands is the only one to not have been a monument first. Support for creating a park in the area started in the early 1950s when Bates Wilson, the superintendent at Arches , began exploring the areas south and west of Moab that are now part of the Needles District of the park ( The park is made up of 4 districts- Green and Colorado Rivers, Island in the Sky, Maze, and Needles) and began pushing for the area to become a national park . eventually Interior Secretary Stewart Udall came to support the park idea, and after several years of Congressional debate, in which the size of the park was repeatedly reduced from an initial 1 million acres, the park was approved and signed into law in 1964 . Wilson was named the parks first superintendent and is called ‘ the Father of Canyonlands’ today.
While the park is big, over 330000 acres, it probably needs to be several times larger, as the park contains only a part of the amphitheater it sits in. Proposals for protecting the surrounding area as a 1.8 Million acre Greater Canyonlands National Monument picked up steam under Obama, but Obama ended up not designating Greater Canyonlands, and designated Bears Ears instead. I would favor monument status for the area, as a bridge towards adding it into the national park. there are several instances where a park was expanded by adding a surrounding or neighboring monument into it — the second Grand Canyon monument and Marble Canyon into Grand Canyon , the second Zion monument into Zion, and Jackson Hole into Grand Teton. Expanding Canyonlands by adding Greater Canyonlands into it, seems like a no brainer to me, the resulting park would cover about the same size as Yellowstone, around 2.2 million acres. Nearly 750000 people visited the park in 2017.
* Capitol Reef Established 1971 Covers 241 904 acres
Established in 1937 as a national monument by FDR, the monument covered 37000 acres at first, then was massively expanded by Lyndon Johnson on his way out in 1969 , adding over 200000 acres. Congress tweaked the borders upon designating it a park in 1971, slicing off about 13000 acres. the park contains the Waterpocket Fold, a monocline that runs for 100 miles through the park. it is the largest exposed monocline in North America and is at least 65 million years old. it likely formed as part of the upthrust that formed the Rocky Mountains. Efforts to conserve the area began in the 1920s when the area was proposed as Wayne’s Wonderland national monument, which would have covered as much as 4.5 million acres.
FDR finally designated the monument in 1937 as Capitol Reef ( named because formations, such as Capitol Dome, resemble the US Capitol building) but it was a small fraction of the initial proposed size. The CCC began work in the park shortly after its designation, but the park would be managed by Zion NP until 1950 when Charles Kelly became the first superintendent, although he had been in an unpaid management position since 1943. Johnson’s expansion of the monument spurred Congress to action, as monument designations often do. 1.15 million people visited in 2017.
* Zion Established 1919 Covers 146 597 acres
The oldest of the 5 national parks, Zion was first established in 1909 by President Taft, as the third monument of his tenure ( and 21st overall). Originally covering 15000 acres and named Mukuntuweap after the name given the area by John Wesley Powell in 1869 believing ( erroneously) that it was the Paiute name for the area, President Wilson changed it to Zion in 1918, after the Mormons name for the area , reflecting a then -held bias that Indian and Spanish names for places would be less popular and less visited, than places named for whites. if people couldn't pronounce their names , they wouldn't visit. Congress upgraded Zion to a national park in 1919, adding over 60000 acres to the area. in 1937 FDR designated a second Zion monument covering the Kolob area and covering nearly 50000 acres. in 1956 Congress folded the Kolob monument into the park. in 2009 124000 acres , roughly 85% of the park, was designated as wilderness, as part of the 2009 Omnibus bill that also created , in areas bordering or close to the park, nearly 23000 acres of wilderness. More than 4.5 million people visited in 2017.
NATIONAL MONUMENTS -8
* Bears Ears Established 2016 Covers 1, 351, 859 acres
Designated by President Obama in the final weeks of his presidency, Bears Ears covers over 1.35 million acres , stretching from Glen Canyon to Canyonlands NP, bordering Canyonlands to the East and South and touching Glen Canyon both with the main monument touching Glen Canyons northernmost and southernmost stretches, and with a detached piece of the monument touching the middle part of Glen Canyon. the monument contains over 100000 Indian ruins and artifacts, including petroglyphs. a coalition of 5 Native tribes- Navajo , Hopi, Ute mountain, Ute Unitah and Ouray, and Pueblo of Zuni- formed the bears Ears Intertribal Coalition in 2015 , and pressed for a national monument covering 1.9 million acres, around the same size as Grand Staircase Escanlante. Rob Bishop, an inveterate foe of conservation in general and of the Antiquities Act in particular, proposed a 1.4 million acre Conservation area as part of a Public Land Initiative, which was first proposed in 2013, but went nowhere, and went nowhere in the months and years preceding Obama’s designation. Bishops legislation attempt was really nothing more than an attempt to prevent a monument designation, by claiming Congress was considering acting on his proposal. Unlike Clinton with Grand Staircase, Obama waited for many months before designating the monument, and the size he settled on was smaller than Bishop’s PLI proposal and significantly smaller than the tribes preferred size , over 500000 acres less. Areas including Black Mesa and the Abajo mountains were left out.
Trumps December 2017 reductions of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante, by 1.1 million and 900000 acres respectively, violate the Antiquities Act and are expected to be reversed by the DC Circuit Court this year, precluding Trump, and any future presidents, from reducing monuments. Once established, monuments cannot be shrunk except by Congress, per the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976. Presidents can expand monuments, per the 1978 Supreme Court decision in US vs California, but not reduce a monument, the implied authority to do so was repealed as part of FLMPA, and hadnt been used since 1963 anyway. Further section 204j explicitly prohibits the Interior Secretary from making any changes to monuments, which includes recommending they be shrunk. Thus, Zinke’s actions on recommending changes to monuments in 2017 violate the law, and render the reductions invalid.
* Cedar Breaks Established 1933 Covers 6155 acres
Established by FDR as his first monument in August 1933, the monument conserves a natural amphitheater similar to that found in Bryce Canyon, except more eroded. Cedar breaks got its nae from settlers who passed through the area and navigated the canyons spires and cliffs of the region. The local Indians called it the ‘Circle of Painted Cliffs’ for the colors in the cliff faces. nearly 900000 people visited in 2016.
* Dinosaur Established 1915 covers 210 844 acres (in CO &UT)
The largest monument in Colorado, the dinosaur fossil beds were first discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass, a paleontologist working for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Douglass sent back thousands of fossils for study and the interest generated by the find convinced President Wilson to set the beds aside as a national monument in 1915. Originally only covering 80 acres, the monument was greatly expanded by FDR in 1938, to its current area of 210000 acres, and stretched the monument into Utah. The Bureau of Reclamation planned to dam Echo Valley as part of a 10 dam project to create reservoirs and create stable supplies of water throughout Colorado. after a storm of protest by conservationists, Congress ended up eliminating the dam inside the monument, and went ahead with the other 9 dams. 360000 people visited the monument in 2005.
* Grand Staircase Escalante Established 1996 Covers 1, 880 461 acres
The first and largest monument ever designated by President Clinton, Grand staircase was, unlike Bears Ears, truly a surprise monument, as Clinton gave the Utah leadership group 24 hours notice before designating it in September 1996. Clinton;s designation covered 1.7 million acres, and included the Grand Staircase, Kaiparowits Plateau, and Escanalante Canyons. the monument designation stirred an uproar in Utah similar to the uproar in Wyoming after the designation of Jackson Hole in 1943, and in Alaska after Carters declaration of 17 monuments in 1978. threats were made by the Utah delegation in Congress to defund or revoke the monument, or revoke the Antiquities Act itself entirely. Clinton made it very clear in response, that he would veto any change to the monument or the Antiquities Act, and in 1998 Congress passed legislation adding nearly 200000 acres to the monument via border swaps.
Clinton’s designation was challenged in court in a case called Utah Association of Counties vs Bush. in 2004 the courts upheld the monument, finding Clinton had been within his discretion to create the monument, and that Supreme Court precedent limits judicial review to whether the President used his power under the Antiquities Act properly. Trump’s reductions in Grand Staircase violate the Act, because a president does not get to undo actions of his predecessor. As Homer Cummings put it in 1938 when reviewing FDR’s request to undo Castle Pinckney NM in South Carolina , “ the president may no more undo his own work, than he can the work of his predecessors “ holding that the granting of power by Congress to the President under The Antiquities Act was ‘a sacred trust’ meant only to conserve places, not remove protections from them and thus a president may not undo a monument, even one of his own creation.
FDR agreed with Cummings’ findings and left it to Congress to undo Castle Pinckney , which it did in 1956. Apparently, adding Castle Pinckney into the nearby Fort Sumter National monument, as was done with Fort Moultrie, was never seriously considered. Trumps actions in December 2017 violate the arbitrary and capricious standard, as any change to a monument must ensure the objects protected in the initial proclamation are still protected. In both reductions, however, Trump didnt do this, as in cutting out so much of the monuments, he removed areas and features worthy of protection in both monuments. in Grand Staircase, he removed areas widely believed to contain dinosaur fossils, quite likely belonging to previously unknown species. The monument has revealed several dinosaur fossils dating back to 75 million years ago ago and in 2013 an new species of dinosaur was discovered . The courts upholding the monument in 2004 should have settled the matter, and will likely be used by the DC Circuit Court in tossing out the reduction. Nearly 900000 people visited the monument in 2014.
* Hovenweep Established 1923 Covers 784 acres( in CO & UT)
Divided into four sections, three of which are surrounded By Canyons of the Ancients NM, this monuments protects six village sites of the Anasazi people, who were predecessors of the modern Pueblo peoples. artifacts dating back to 8000 BC have been found within the monument, and most of ruins date between 900-1300 AD.Hovenweep, which means "Deserted Valley" in the Ute language, was first discovered in 1854, and the area was vandalized as was common with ruins in the area, before the area was set aside as a monument in 1923. Nearly 26000 people visited in 2011.
* Natural Bridges Established 1908 Covers 7636 acres
Designated by Teddy Roosevelt in 1908, the monument is the oldest in Utah, and is also one of the smallest, covering less than 8000 acres. Roosevelt’s initial proclamation covered a mere 120 acres, but Presidents Taft and Kennedy added onto the monument, with Kennedy adding over 5000 acres . the monument protected 3 natural bridges, Kachina, Owachomo and Sipapu, with Sipapu being the largest, in fact Sipapu is the 13th largest natural bridge in the world. the areas remoteness meant it didnt get many visitors for many decades until roads began to be put in in the 1960s. in 2007 Natural bridges was named a Dark sky Park, as it has the darkest and clearest night skies in the Us, and that the monument tries to maintain the dark sky as a natural resource. Just over 100000 people visited in 2016.
* Rainbow Bridge Established 1910 covers 160 acres
The Smallest monument in the state, at just 160 acres, Rainbow Bridge was designated by president Taft in 1910. a natural bridge, as opposed to an arch, Rainbow bridge is the highest natural bridge in the world, and is considered sacred by the Paiute and Najavo tribes, who call it ‘ Nonnezoshe” or “Rainbow turned to stone’. After Taft designated it as a monument, former president Roosevelt and author Zane Grey were among the first visitors to visit the monument, in the early days the only ways to get to the monument was on horseback or on foot. Water access improved in the 1950s and 60s with the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. 86000 people visited the monument in 2016.
* Timpanogos Cave Established 1922 Covers 250 acres
Designated by President Harding, Timoanogos Cave preserves 3 separate caves on Mount Timpanogos- Hansen Cave, Middle Cave and Timpanogos Cave. Hansen Cave was found first, in 1887 by Martin Hansen. unfortunately, by the time the area became a monument, many of the features and formations were damaged or removed, either by the general public or by the Duke Onyx Company. Timpanogos Cave was discovered in 1913 and Middle Cave was uncovered in 1921, Martin Hansen was the first to to enter the cave, followed by his son and grandson. Thanks to efforts made by their discoverers, Timpanogos Cave and Middle Cave are without the damage inflicted on Hansen cave. in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration built tunnels to connect the caves, and the tunnels are still used by tours today. the monument was managed by the Forest Service from 1922-33 when the monument was moved into the care of the Park Service. Nearly 100000 people visited the cave in 2011.
NATIONAL FORESTS-7
* Ashley Established 1908 Covers 1, 382, 346 acres (in UT and WY)
Named after Fur trader William Henry Ashley ( who also served 3 terms in House in the 1830s as a Jackson Democrat from Missouri0. Ashley forest was established by Teddy Roosevelt in 1908. in 1953 the north slope of the Uinta Montains was transferred to Wasatch NF as part of a trade, where Ashley got the Rock creek and Duschene River drainage . The Flaming Gorge NRA was added in 1968, adding 120000 acres. Over 2.5 million people visit the forest each year.
* Caribou-Targhee Established 1903 Covers 2,630,716 acres (in ID, UT and WY)
Once two separate Forests, the Caribou and Targhee, the forests were combined in 1903. Targhee is the larger and northern of the two covering nearly 1.65 million acres and extends from Idaho into Wyoming. Caribou covers almost 1 million acres and run into Utah and Wyoming from Idaho. two wildernesses, Winegar Hole and Jedediah Smith, lie in the forest.
* Dixie Established 1905 Covers 1, 889 106 acres
The largest national forest in the state, Dixie got its name for the warm, Southern-like temperatures the southern part of Utah gets, compared to the colder, northern part of the state. Established as a Forest Reserve in 1905 by the GLO, it was transferred to the forest Service in 1906 and became a National Forest in 1907. the forest expanded in 1922 when part of Sevier NF was added into it, the rest of Sevier went into Powell NF, which itself was added into Dixie in 1944. Dixie is split into 4 districts _ Cedar City, Escalante, Pine Valley and Powell, and contains 4 wilderness areas- Ashdown Gorge- which covers about 7000 acres, Box-Death Hollow, which covers nearly 26, 000 acres, Cottonwood Forest, which covers nearly 3000 acres, and Pine Valley mountain which covers about 50000 acres. Cottonwood Forest was added as part of the 2009 Omnibus. 700, 000 people visited the forest in 2006.
* Fishlake Established 1908 Covers 1, 461, 226 acres
Named after the largest freshwater lake in the state, Fishlake got its start in 1899 as a Forest Reserve, then was named a National Forest in 1908. the forest is split into 4 districts- Beaver, Fillmore, Loa, and Richfield. Fillmore and Richfield both have two, non-contiguous sections of forest. the Pando colony of quaking aspen, considered at 80000 years of age to be the oldest living organism on earth, lies in the Fremont River area of the forest, just a mile southwest of Fish Lake. 500000 people visited the forest in 2006.
* Manti- La Sal Established 1950 Covers 1, 270, 886 acres(in CO & UT)
Original two separate forests, Manti was established in 1903 as the Manti forest reserve, covering around 585000 acres, while La Sal was created in 1906 with 158000 acres. Both forests had parts of others forests added to them prior to their merger in 1949. Manti- lies entirely in Utah, while La Sal stretches into Colorado. the La Sal Mountains are the second-highest mountain range in Utah after the Unitas. the Monticello district of the Forest along with the Dark Canyon Wilderness, was incorporated into Bears Ears in 2016. 900000 visited the forest in 2006.
* Sawtooth Established 1905 Covers 2,102,461 acres (in ID and UT)
The vast majority-96% of the forest, lies in Idaho, only 4% lies in Utah. the forest is managed as 4 units the Sawtooth NRA, and the Fairfield, Ketchum, and Minidoka districts. of the 3 ranger units Minidoka is the largest at 604000 acres, followed by Fairfield at 420000 aces and Ketchum at 321000 acres. the forest gets 1 million visitors a year and has over 80 campgrounds.
* Wasatch-Cache Established 1906 Covers 1,607, 177 acres (In ID, UT and WY)
Lying mostly in Utah, about a sixth of the forest lies in Idaho. the Wasatch portion covers 905000 acres and lies in Utah and Wyoming. the Cache portion covers 701000 acres, and includes the portion of the forest in Idaho. In 2007, the Unita Forest in Utah was merged with Wasatch-Cache, creating the Unita-Wasatch-Cache National Forest and adding 880000 acres to the forests area, bringing it to nearly 2.5 million acres. in all 9 wilderness area lie within the new forest, covering nearly 500000 acres
WILDLIFE REFUGES-3
* Bear River Established 1928 Covers 79000 acres
The largest refuge in the state , Bear River includes both the river and its delta, where it flows into Great Salt Lake. More than half the refuge, 41000 acres, is freshwater wetlands. the refuges sits on both the Pacific Flyway and the Central Flyway, making it a prime migration point for birds. over 200 species use the refuge , and 67 nest there. Tundra Swans and white ibises can number over 10000 when gathered in the refuge.
* Fish Springs Established 1959 Covers 17 992 acres
Located on the southern end of the Great Salt Lake Desert, Fish Springs started as a Pony Express and Overland station, and got its name from the fish that lived in springs in the area. The water in the springs is warm ( over 80 degrees) and saline, meaning its not fit for human consumption.
* Ouray Established 1960 Covers 11987 acres
Created in 1960, the refuges borders the Green River for 16 miles, and is named after Ouray Indians whose reservation makes up part of the refuge. the refuge contain river bottomlands and woodlands, and over 350 fish and wildlife species spend some time in the refuge, which is part of the Lower Green River WR Complex, which includes the Colorado river WMA and Browns Park WR, both in Colorado.
HISTORIC SITES AND OTHER NPS UNITS-6
* Beaver Dam Wash NCA Established 2009 Covers 63500 acres
created by the 20009 omnibus bill, Beaver Dam Wash conserves part of the Virgin river, which id a tributary. Located along the borders with Nevada and Arizona, it protects Joshua trees, desert tortoise and bighorn sheep.
* Desert Reserve Established 1933 Covers 55680 acres
Created in 1933 by president Hoover. Desert Range conserves part of the Tunnel Springs mountains, in the southwestern corner of the state. Meant as an agricultural experiment reserve, Desert is managed by the Forest Service to protect a chunk of besert basins typical of the Great Basin, which covers much of Nevada, Utah, and Oregon, and extends into California, Wyoming and Idaho. the area was designated as a Biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1976 but was withdrawn from the program in 2017 as part of the US leaving UNESCO .
* Flaming Gorge NRA Established 1968 Covers 207 363 acres ( In UT &WY)
Designated by Congress in 1968 to conserve the area surrounding the Flaming Gorge Reservior, much of the area lies in Wyoming, but is managed by Ashley NF is Utah. Originally covering 120000 acres, the NRA now covers more than 200000 and stretches to Green River Wyoming at its northernmost part. there are over 700 different recreational campsites throughout the Gorge, which got its name from John Wesley Powell in his famed 1869 expedition, the brilliant colored sandstone cliffs of the area seemed to be on fire, hence Flaming Gorge. The Flaming Gorge Dam was completed in 1964, creating the Flaming Gorge Reservoir.
* Glen Canyon NRA Established 1972 Covers 1, 254 117 acres (In AZ &UT)
Established in 1972 by Congress following the damming of Glen Canyon in 1966, the NRA covers over 1.25 million acres, nearly 600000 of which is a wilderness study area. One of the most popular sites in the NPS, Glen Canyon regularly gets over 2 million visitors a year. 2.27 million visited in 2011.
* Golden Spike NHS Established 1957 Covers 2735 acres
Marks the sites of the 1869 completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit. It was first conserved in 1957 as a non-federal area, then was transferred to the Park service in 1965 as an historic site. Over 40000 people visited in 2005.
* Red Cliffs NCA Established 2009 Covers 44725 acres
Established as part of the Omnibus in march 2009, Red Cliffs is part of the larger Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, which was created in 1996 to conserve habitat for the desert tortoise . the NCA is located on the edge of the Mojave Desert and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
This concluded my exploration of Utah. Next time, I’ll be in Vermont, exploring the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain. As always, comments and imput are welcome. See You in the comments!
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