Endangered Spaces - Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

The Dirtbag Diaries

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Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Boulder, Utah. Population 250. Sitting in the heart of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, this small town of ranchers and settled-down dirtbags prides itself on staying out of the spotlight. It’s the right amount of quiet here. The ranchers ranch. A few small businesses cater to hikers and wanderers. Visitors come and go. Boulder was thrust into the spotlight in 1996 when President Clinton declared the monument. And in 2017, Boulder again found itself at the center of the debate when President Trump issued an order to cut the size of the monument by nearly half. For this installment of Endangered Spaces, we traveled to Boulder to capture a snapshot of a community thrust into a fight they did not choose. A fight they may have little influence over. And a fight about how to protect public lands and who decides. The outcome of that fight will have lasting implications not just for Boulder, but to all communities who rely on public lands. For a population of 250, Boulder had a lot to say.

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1:06.6	What is that sound? It's it's a Rubik's Cube. That puzzle from the 80s? Yeah, wait a
1:15.2	second, hang on. Yeah, okay, so it's a Rubik's Cube and I'm not sure if I like it.
1:23.2	I gave it to the family for Christmas. I thought it'd be like cool to have in the
1:27.5	trailer, but it is not. Why don't you stop? Because Jen, humans are good at
1:35.7	creating problems for themselves. Do you have a strategy? That's a fair question.
1:43.9	I think at this stage, the best strategy would be to Google how to solve a Rubik's Cube.
1:49.8	I guess that I'm not doing that because I feel like cheating, but yes, I've been trying
1:53.4	a lot of different ways. It's fairly easy to make one side all the same color, but that's
1:58.1	clearly not the right approach. And I give the point where like one side of the square
2:03.2	is always unhappy. I'll get closer and then something just goes wrong and the last bit
2:09.2	totally seems insurmountable to me. The individual pieces, I just can't get them to fall
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