The rocks that make up the Book Cliffs north of Grand Junction once covered the whole valley. Before that, the whole Rocky Mountain region was underwater. RMPBS News is available to stream on pbs.org ...
If you've hiked or ridden horseback on a difficult trail in the Bureau of Land Management's Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range northeast of Grand Junction, you can bet Dave Knight traveled the same ...
After two hours of pre-dawn driving up rugged dirt roads into canyons and plateaus northwest of De Beque, a small caravan of bleary-eyed travelers arrived at a rocky outcropping overlooking Monument ...
Do Utah taxpayers really want to spend at minimum $150 million to construct a highway with no true purpose? Building a new highway, at a time when maintaining and improving Utah’s already existing ...
Despite decades of opposition from environmentalists, hunters and Grand County officials, a proposed highway through Utah’s Book Cliffs never died. The project merely went underground and has recently ...
It’s desert season, and there is no better time to catch a glimpse of the powerful mustangs on the Western Slope. Wild horses grazing in the Little Book Cliffs. Photo by William M. Rochfort, Jr. The ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LITTLE BOOK CLIFFS — The stallion broke away from a band of horses and charged past a small knot of visitors at the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range, its ...
Oil and gas activity in the Bogart Canyon area of Utah's Book Cliffs will be delayed until 2016, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and the state's School and Institutional Lands Trust Administration jointly ...
The Book Cliffs in eastern Utah are named for caps of Cretaceous sandstone that look like shelves of books. The remote area is also rich in mineral, oil and gas deposits — a fact that has led a ...