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The 500 acres of recreational land proposed for a $10 billion data center development is less than two miles from residential areas and the City of Page. Photo by Beth Henshaw Irene Whitekiller, LeChee Chapter President, standing in front of the LeChee Chapter House. The LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation voted unanimously in February to pass a resolution opposing the City of Page’s decision last year to sell 500 acres of recreational land for a $10 billion data center development.

Page residents line the street outside of City Hall on January 14, 2026, to protest 500 acres of recreational land sold to a developer, Huntley LLC, for a $10 billion data center. Photo by Beth Henshaw Page residents gathered outside Page City Hall on January 14, 2026, to protest the selling of 500 acres of recreational land to a U.K. company, Huntley LLC, for a $10 billion data center.

Photo of the Returning Rapids expedition group at the take-out at Halls Crossing, May 2025. Photo by Mike DeHoff by Beth Henshaw – 10.23.2025 – 15 min. read One month after Page, Arizona’s City Council voted 5-2 to approve the sale of 500 acres of recreational land to Huntley LLC for a $10 billion data center project, Page residents filed a referendum to veto the council’s vote.

Photo of the Returning Rapids expedition group at the take-out at Halls Crossing, May 2025. Photo by Mike DeHoff The Returning Rapids Project May 2025 expedition poses at their put-in location with the waterfall warning sign at Clay Hills Crossing—the location where boaters typically leave the river. Photo courtesy Beth Henshaw by Beth Henshaw – 10.23.2025 – 15 min.

by Beth Henshaw – 10.23.2025 – 15 min. read On a sunny morning this past May, as a thicket of tamarisk swayed in the wind along the banks of the San Juan River in southeastern Utah, a fleet of metal skiffs, pack-rafts, passengers and guides pushed off downriver from Clay Hills Crossing, the point at which San Juan boaters normally end their trip.

by Ian Marynowski – 5.15.2025 – 15 min. read On Jan. 11, 2025, hundreds of people gathered on the steps of Utah’s Capitol Building for the Rally for Public Lands—a show of support for preserving Utah’s national monuments, national forests and national park lands.

by Ian Marynowski – 07.03.2024 – 15 min. read Last summer, a new symbol highlighting the longstanding roads dispute between Garfield County and the Bureau of Land Management sprouted at the entrance to Hole-in-the-Rock Road (HITR), east of Escalante, Utah.

by Emily Arntsen – 01.30.2024 – 20 min. read It’s been nearly a year since Utah lawmakers declared a no-holds-barred open season against mountain lions during the 2023 legislative session. The changes made to the state’s hunting laws kicked off a contentious and ongoing political battle that has provoked a lawsuit against the state and pitted some of Utah’s most influential subcultures against each other.

One curious member of the public, who joined state wildlife biologists on an excursion to a bear den, poses for a photo with the tranquilized black bear. Photo credit: Emily Arntsen by Emily Arntsen – 8.17.2023 – 20 min. read In the doldrums of late summer, when the Book Cliffs are thirsty and barren, black bears clamber down to Green River, Utah, to feast on the town’s famous fruits. The locals call them Melon Bears. Some say the Melon Bears are bad omens.

The Parks’ current troubles can be directly traced to the prevailing values of the era in which they were created. The spirit of Henry Ford presided over the birth of the Park Service. Auto-tourism was all the rage, and in the 1920s, the Service was quick to embrace the paradigm that more cars would mean more visitors, more visitors would mean more public support for parks, more public support would mean more influence in Congress for bigger budgets.