The Bears Ears

A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness

By: David Roberts

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument.

The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened by oil and gas drilling, unrestricted grazing, and invasion by Jeep and ATV, is at the center of the greatest environmental battle in America since the damming of the Colorado River to create Lake Powell in the 1950s.

In The Bears Ears, acclaimed adventure writer David Roberts takes listeners on a tour of his favorite place on Earth, as he unfolds the rich and contradictory human history of the 1.35 million acres of the Bears Ears domain. Weaving personal memoir with archival research, Roberts sings the praises of the outback he's explored for the last 25 years.

©2021 David Roberts (P)2021 Tantor

Very interesting history of the Bears Ears

Excellent history of the Bears Ears area . I enjoyed the author's passion and detailed stories about his trips to Cedar Mesa.

Narration was on point as well.

The topic jumped around

The topic the author was writing about seemed to jump around at times and didn't seem to flow very well. otherwise, I thought it was very good.

kinda of the same story's

Same stories hes already told in his other books. he need to write about hohokams or something.

A stroll through the Bears Ears in space and time

Anecdotal and personal. Took me a while to appreciate it because I was expecting a more "chronological" story, something the author warns the reader off in the introduction. A good listen, I cranked up the playback to 1.35x speed to give it some "snapp".

Great book, insufferable narrator

He sounds like Captain Kirk on cocaine. He stops on every single word. Absolutely terrible.