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DOI Secretary Jewell Heads To The Grand Canyon

Jerry Thompson
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A little over a week after coming to Bluff, Utah, to hear views on protecting the Bears Ears area, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is visiting Grand Canyon National Park. According to a release, she’s meeting with National Park Service leaders and employees to discuss the challenges of managing the iconic park. There is a proposal to create a 1.7-million-acre national monument around the park to protect the views and watershed from development. Petitions with more than a half-million signatures calling for the Greater Grand Canyon National Monument have reportedly been delivered to President Obama. There is no word on whether Jewell’s visit is linked to that proposal.

Gail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.
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