Remote, secluded and mysterious, a forbidding landscape. Many such phrases could be used to accurately describe National Monument, straddling a section of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. However, you could easily add "uncrowded" to that list, too, as the park only receives about 27,000 visitors a year. That's an average of about 75 people a day, meaning solitude and serenity are plentiful here, though rare in most national park settings today.
SALT LAKE CITY The next federal oil and gas lease auction in Utah will offer more than 112,000 acres of land for drilling, including parcels within a stone's throw of Hovenweep National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border. Archaeologists, conservation groups and a former park ranger are protesting, and the Bureau of Land Management said Thursday it may revise the list of parcels that go up for lease next week.
Human nomads were visiting the Hovenweep area in Utah, 30 miles northwest of Four Corners, more than 10 millennia ago, but it was not until about A.D. 900, after the cultural stage known as Basketmaker, that people formed permanent settlements there. By that time other Ancestral Puebloans already lived at Chaco Canyon and still others had been resident at Mesa Verde for three centuries. The circular stone towers at Mesa Verde and the great houses and roads at Chaco Canyon were built in the Pueblo II and Pueblo III periods, which are known as the Late Developmental and Coalition periods in the nomenclature used for the history of settlement in the Ro Grande region.
Time Does Not Exist and On Reading Emerson, the other two solo piano works, are both more successful; the former is built on a strange melody that repeats and layers upon itself, eventually moving out of phase with its own repetitions, while the latter is an attempt to reflect what Gann sees as the essentially nonlinear nature of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry in music.
...Hovenweep employs a similar technique to that of Time Does N...
Utah's entry into the state-parks program was slow. In fact, Utah is said to be the last state to have recreational land falling under state control. During the first three decades of the 20th century, Utah's natural wonders became recognized on a national level as parks or monuments. Zion became a national park in 1916, then Rainbow Bridge in 1910; Dinosaur in 1915; Hovenweep and Timpanogos Cave in 1923; Bryce Canyon in 1928; Arches in 1929; Cedar Breaks in 1933; and Capitol Reef in 1937.
A coalition of environmental groups is protesting a federal land- lease auction that would allow oil and gas drilling near a national monument in southeastern Utah, in the Book Cliffs wilderness area and by land along the Green River. The filing opposes the Bureau of Land Management's inclusion of government-owned land near Hovenweep National Monument and by other recreational areas in an upcoming lease auction.
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