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    Durango Herald

    Aug 20 2021

    National forest land exchange poses troubling trade-offs

    By Mark Pearson Durango Herald Column, Lands Protection
    A festering land exchange controversy near Pagosa Springs is emblematic of larger questions about public lands and private demands. It is the latest in a series of exchanges whereby wealthy landowners covetous of adjacent national forest lands contrive a means…
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    May 19 2017
    Ruins of Lowry Pueblo in CANM

    A Challenge to our National Monuments: Will the Lords of Yesterday Prevail?

    By Mark Pearson Durango Herald Column, Lands Protection
    We’re in uncharted waters. A presidential administration just launched an overarching attack on more than 11 million acres of previously protected landscapes. The Trump administration’s new initiative to overturn national monuments designated over the past 20 years is unlike anything…
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