"We don't have much infrastructure, we don't even have an ATM or stoplight," says Spalding. acquired the Colt Mesa deposit, an approximately 200-acre piece of land rich in copper, cobalt and nickel, about 35 miles southeast of Boulder, the closest community to the parcel and the most direct route in. Vancouver-based copper and silver mining firm Glacier Lake Resources Inc. According to Nicole Croft, executive director of Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners, people have been illegally driving all-terrain vehicles through the monument, vandalizing archaeological sites and burning fires all over the land. News Firm Prepares To Mine Land Previously Protected As A National MonumentĪlready, the restaurateurs and wilderness lovers are seeing the effects of scaling back. "People rely on them wholeheartedly to fight for something like this." " are a driving force, one of the largest voices down there," says Chantelle Bourdeaux, an advisory member for Slow Food Utah. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Utah Gov. It suggests asking members of Congress to endorse enacting a bill protecting all national monuments, donating to organizations that are fighting for public lands, and calling or writing U.S. The restaurateurs have expressed their concern that the downsizing of the monument will adversely impact their business in a lawsuit filed by the nonprofit Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners along with two other plaintiffs, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Conservation Lands Foundation.Ī fact sheet explaining the changes and what can be done to try to stop them sits atop the hostess stand at Hell's Backbone.
They're using their restaurant and its far-reaching customer base to rally support for preserving southern Utah's threatened public lands.
The remote and sustainable restaurant has become a destination for travelers seeking a taste of its terroir-driven fare.įor the past two years, the business partners and best friends have been named as semifinalists for "Best Chef: Southwest" by the James Beard Foundation. It's an amalgam of Mormon pioneer, Western range cowboy and traditional Southwest flavors, like juniper lamb posole or grilled pork chops with Boulder crabapple barbecue sauce. The remote and sustainable restaurant has become a destination for culinary travelers seeking a taste of its terroir-driven fare. Nearly 20 years ago, Spalding and her business partner, Jen Castle, founded Hell's Backbone Grill in Boulder, Utah, on the edge of the then-newly designated Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, about 250 miles south of Salt Lake City.
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"It's full of dinosaur fossils and more than 650 documented species of wild bees." "That is one of the areas they're hoping to mine," she tells a group of visiting chefs from Salt Lake City. The looming bluff is dotted with thousand-year-old pinyon pine and juniper trees. Standing between peach and cherry trees on her 6.5-acre Utah farm, Blake Spalding points to the Kaiparowits Plateau. The restaurant's owners are fighting Trump's plans to slash the size of nearby Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by more than half. Hell's Backbone Grill is located in Boulder, Utah, about 250 miles south of Salt Lake City.
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