utah
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Trump Administration Boldly Finalises Plan To Ruin Some Of America’s Most Pristine Wilderness
A little more than two years after dramatically shrinking two national monuments in Utah, the Trump administration has finished off its plans to exploit the land it cut out. I, for one, will rest easy knowing that formerly pristine wilderness and land held sacred by local tribes is finally in the hands of prospectors, ranchers,…
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The Biggest Organism On Earth Is Dying, And It’s Our Fault
The heaviest organism on Earth isn’t a whale or an elephant. It’s a tree — or rather, a system of over 40,000 clonal trees, all connected by their roots. Pando, a six million kg organism in central Utah, is believed to have sprouted toward the end of the last Ice Age.
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The Biggest Man-Made Hole On Earth
A few weeks ago, we looked at a photo essay on Mir Mine, a 1200m wide mine in Eastern Siberia that’s one of the largest man-made holes on Earth’s surface. It made us wonder: Where the largest hole ever made by humans? As it turns out, it’s in the United States.
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No Video Can Capture The Colossal Beauty Of Arches And Canyonlands
Utah is an outstandingly beautiful monumental state, with some of the most incredible landscapes I’ve ever seen in my life. Monument Valley, the Valley of the Gods, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Capitol Reef, and of course Arches and Canyonlands, which you can see in this timelapse.