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Utah's Deserts Are Bee Hotspots

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The Trump administration is shrinking Utah's desert monuments, stripping some federal protections for wild pollinators. Christopher Intagliata reports.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:11.0

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0:19.6

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.jp. That's Y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.J-P. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:33.7

This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

0:40.3

As all of you know, today we are keeping faith with the future.

0:46.6

I'm about to sign a proclamation that will establish the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.

0:54.6

More than 20 years ago, President Bill Clinton stood on the south rim of the Grand Canyon,

0:59.8

announcing his intention to set aside nearly two million acres of Utah land.

1:04.4

Land that his proclamation said was home to, quote,

1:07.2

many different vegetative communities and numerous types of endemic plants and their

1:12.0

pollinators. Just how many pollinators, though, was an open question at the time. So a handful of

1:17.8

intrepid entomologists set out, season after season, to observe and classify wild bee species

1:23.1

in every corner of the monument. And they got 660 of them. So 660 bees represents about half of the

1:31.0

species known in Utah and about one-fifth of the species known from the United States. So there's a

1:36.2

big proportion of the bees known from North America are found in the Grand Staircase National

1:41.2

Monument. Joseph Wilson, an entomologist at Utah State University, who was involved in the efforts.

1:47.0

But then he says, just as they were about to publish those big results,

1:50.6

his team got word the Trump administration was going to shrink the monument to half its size.

1:55.7

So they reanalyze their data in light of the new maps and found that the new monument left 84

2:01.6

of the 660 wild bee species outside its bounds.

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