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My Colorado Thoughts

5/15/2023

 
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.  --- O. Henry

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. --  John Steinbeck

The weather is like the government - always in the wrong.  Jerome K.

Utah Monuments
Former President Donald Trump illegally decreased the territory of Bears Ears National Monument by 85%  and Grand Staircase- Escalante by 47%. during his Presidency..This shrinkage puts 100,000 cultural sites in
danger of destruction by oil and gas drilling sites. Indian tribes filed suites claiming the territory was the home of ancient cliff dwellings.

Litigation  led the Biden administration to restore both parks. The state of Utah aims to poke in the Antiquities Act which has brought the slogan, "The earth needs a good lawyer."

                                         The Valley of the Gods
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