#Utah State Capitol

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Speech Liz Cheney gave at the Utah State Capitol!

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cherry blossom season

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After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young lead 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City on July 24, 1847.

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" Capitol Reef National Park " // © Austin Pedersen

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Capitol Reef National Park - Utah - USA (by James Marvin Phelps)

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eternal--returned ֍ Utah State Capitol Building, Salt Lake City, Utah (2024)

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Doing a road trip from Vegas to all the Utah national parks and multiple state parks and national monuments next month. Anyone got any tips or any places I should check out? I probably have most of the open spaces saved but lesser known places are good to know and even more so I'll take some food recommendations or just general tips :)

We are renting a jeep so dirt roads are fine ❤️

Just a photo of my cat watching travel videos with me in preparation, for visibility's sake.

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neshamama​: Fremont petroglyphs, “Owl panel,” c.600-1200 CE, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, United States.

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Navajo - les parcs nationaux de l'Utah par Jesse Echevarria

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/navajo-les-parcs-nationaux-de-lutah-par-jesse-echevarria/

Navajo - les parcs nationaux de l'Utah par Jesse Echevarria

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SALT LAKE CITY - UTAH - USA

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Norman Mailer- 'Crime & Punishment: Gary Gilmore'

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– Author Norman Mailer, talking about his book about convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, in 1979. Source:The New Democrat “Episode S0390, Recorded on October 11, 1979, Guest: Norman Mailer” From Firing Line With William F. Buckley This is about convicted serial murderer Gary Gilmore who was obviously guilty of multiple murders out in Utah in the mid 1970s.…

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Friday, October 18, 2024 - Tim Walz

Liz Cheney joined the Governor for a day of campaigning in the state of Utah. The 'official' schedule of today's events is below.

Provo, UT Event Location: North Park and Cherry Hill Neighborhoods Event Type: Door Knocking Event Time: 8:00 - 11:00 MT *Kicking off the morning with breakfast at the Brunch House, a local Provo restaurant, the campaign had very positive interactions with workers and fellow patrons. The campaign then hit the ground running carrying out 3 hours of door knocking in two neighborhoods in Provo, Utah—North Park and Cherry Hill.

Salt Lake City, UT (Event #1) Event Location: Steps of the Utah State Capitol Event Type: Campaign Speech Event Time: 13:00 - 15:00 MT *The full-text of this speech will be released shortly. This stop is unique in that the Governor was not the speaker at the Capitol, Liz Cheney, a unique campaign surrogate was the speaker.

Salt Lake City, UT (Event #2) Event Location: University of Utah Event Type: Get Out the Vote Event Time: 17:00 - 21:00 MT *The campaign wrapped up the day by launching a Get Out the Vote initiative on-campus at the University of Utah. Youth voters continue to be a major target for our campaign as they understand that we are defending the democracy that they are set to inherit, and that we are campaigning for a new generation of leaders to take the reigns of our republic. While there were many students who let us know they couldn't consolidate their religious view with our tickets, our campaign positions were well received.

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Thinking about the social and legal construct of Wilderness (USA edition)

Motorized vehicles cannot be used in Wilderness backcountry — trail-building in Wilderness uses human muscle and livestock to carry supplies.

“Untouched” or “Unspoiled” wilderness. The (false) idea that human hands have never affected parts of Nature. The notion that human influence fundamentally takes away from the Naturalness.

Contrast these Touches for a moment: the Hetch-Hetchy dam, which provides water to the 39 million-population human city of San Francisco, whose creation was fought bitterly by conservationists. The desert razed into half-empty speculative rows of suburbs around Las Vegas, sprawl in an area inhospitable to human life. Food forests and Native American agriculture that supports a higher load of animal and plant life/diversity a century after it was left unattended. Invasive species control. Wildlife rehabilitation. Farming. Ranching. Ecosystems tended and bent by human hands.

Leave No Trace

Controlled burns. Firefighting.

The Wilderness Act of 1964 states that namelessness is an aspect of wilderness. Basically this means the namelessness of things must be preserved, and you can’t just go naming mountain peaks and rivers and stuff in places that are designated Wilderness.

Zion National Park has a valley which the native Americans who lived there called “Mukuntuweap.” Some still do call it Mukuntuweap. “Zion” is a name Mormons gave it. It is an oasis in the desert, a place where humans performed agriculture on the river and hunted animals. Today the valley is subject to millions of human visitors from all over the world. There is no farming or hunting, though native Americans are Permitted to harvest some for personal use. The land is, in the NPS fashion, preserved in a ‘natural’ a state as possible.

In Capitol Reef National Park, another Utah oasis, there is an orchard of fruit trees fed by the water. You can camp there today. The orchard was created by Mormon settlers, and there are historical installations about it.

I’m not against conservation, Leave No Trace, or the works that National Parks or forest service has done in the USA, but, listen. This too is a form of deliberate design. It’s an expression of human ideas of how the Ecosystem should be. Wilderness is to an extent a concept and ideal of human imagination. We have the power and responsibility to shape our shared environment.

I think. There exists among some people a squeamishness and embarrassment about existing as humans. How dare we take up space. Look at all the destruction our indiscriminate self-centeredness has wrought on the natural world: suburbs, strip-mining, fallow fields. But these industrial-scale extractive endeavors are recent.

And we are also part of the world. To live and die is to consume and rot. We are part of the wild. We take of it and we tend it.

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Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state on January 4, 1896.

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" f o r c e d // p e r s p e c t i v e " //© Forrest J Funk

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1. Acadia National Park, Maine

2. American Samoa National Park, American Samoa

3. Arches National Park, Utah

4. Badlands National Park, South Dakota

5. Big Bend National Park, Texas

6. Biscayne National Park, Florida

7. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado

8. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

9. Canyonlands National Park, Utah

10. Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

11. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico

12. Channel Islands National Park, California

13. Congaree National Park, South Carolina

14. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

15. Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio

16. Death Valley National Park, California & Nevada

17. Denali National Park, Alaska

18. Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida

19. Everglades National Park, Florida

20. Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska

21. Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri

22. Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska

23. Glacier National Park, Montana

24. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

25. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

26. Great Basin National Park, Nevada

27. Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

28. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee & North Carolina

29. Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas

30. Haleakalā National Park, Hawaii

31. Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii

32. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas

33. Indiana Dunes National Park, Indiana

34. Isle Royale National Park, Michigan

35. Joshua Tree National Park, California

36. Katmai National Park, Alaska

37. Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

38. Kings Canyon National Park, California

39. Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska

40. Lake Clark National Park, Alaska

41. Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

42. Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky

43. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

44. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

45. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia

46. North Cascades National Park, Washington

47. Olympic National Park, Washington

48. Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

49. Pinnacles National Park, California

50. Redwood National Park, California

51. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

52. Saguaro National Park, Arizona

53. Sequoia National Park, California

54. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

55. Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

56. Virgin Islands National Park, United States Virgin Islands

57. Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota

58. White Sands National Park, New Mexico

59. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota

60. Wrangell—St. Elias National Park, Alaska

61. Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Montana & Idaho

62. Yosemite National Park, California

63. Zion National Park, Utah