If a Bears Ears monument, larger or smaller, won’t guarantee cultural sites aren’t trashed, what will?

More money and more resources will help manage the growing crowds, but real protection will rest with more education and hikers following the rules.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A ceremonial kiva, one of the many Moon House structures, May 4, 2010. Moon House is a Pueblo III-period cliff dwelling located in southeastern Utah on Cedar Mesa in McLoyd's Canyon. It was created by ancestral Puebloan peoples between A.D. 1150 and 1300.

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Zak PodmoreSoutheast Utah reporter

Zak is the southeast Utah reporter for The Tribune. He has been writing from Bluff, Utah, since 2015 and is the author of Confluence: Navigating the Personal & Political On Rivers of the New West. His second book, which will cover the decline of Lake Powell, is forthcoming from Torrey House Press in 2024.