I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your essay this morning. The track of my life has been much the same, though I have a decade or two on you. I hope in future posts you will include information about methods of managing the ever accelerating visitation to BE, GSENM and public lands in general in S. Utah. There is certainly a "drought" in the public conversation about how to address this challenge. The default response seems to be that we will somehow simply build our way of the problem. I don't think that is going to work. Thanks. Scott.
"Besides, it doesn’t take a national monument designation to draw the masses to a place." Yep! I worked for Ken Sleight in several Cedar Mesa canyons in the 80s. I am sorry to say that they and their offspring and friends are probably a major source of the crowds today. It was inevitable that the area would be "discovered."
I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your essay this morning. The track of my life has been much the same, though I have a decade or two on you. I hope in future posts you will include information about methods of managing the ever accelerating visitation to BE, GSENM and public lands in general in S. Utah. There is certainly a "drought" in the public conversation about how to address this challenge. The default response seems to be that we will somehow simply build our way of the problem. I don't think that is going to work. Thanks. Scott.
"Besides, it doesn’t take a national monument designation to draw the masses to a place." Yep! I worked for Ken Sleight in several Cedar Mesa canyons in the 80s. I am sorry to say that they and their offspring and friends are probably a major source of the crowds today. It was inevitable that the area would be "discovered."