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Yvon Chouinard explains his Bears Ears bugbear

10/03/2017

Patagonia founder, Yvon Chouinard, has taken to the columns of the Los Angeles Times to explain his reasons for opposing a proposed change to the ownership of public lands around the Bears Ears national monument in Utah. Utah governor, Gary Herbert, proposes that the state, rather than the US public as a whole, should have ownership of the lands. ...

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