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Robert Redford and the Fragile West

Monument Valley, Utah

Monument Valley, Utah

Monument Valley, with its sweeping vistas and dramatic mesas, was made famous by John Ford westerns. On the horizon lies Utah's canyon country, where I and my friends at the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance recently blocked an energy industry land-grab that would have destroyed this irreplaceable wilderness. (Learn how you can become an NRDC member.)

Photo: VisionsofAmerica/Joe Sohm

Sep 02, 2005
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