The Future of Our Public Lands in a Photo Contest
The Department of Interior, after announcing plans to review and potentially scale back protections for public lands, just re-posted the 2016 winner of its "Share the Experience" photo contest in the category of "scenic landscape." It is indeed a beautiful photo of Fantasy Canyon on public lands in Utah. But I have to wonder if the Secretary of Interior is sending a signal about the future of scenic landscapes by sending this around on social media today. Had the photographer zoomed out much more, they would have revealed a landscape that not many of us consider scenic. Interior selected this photo of Fanatasy Canyon as a winner of its Share the Experience photo contest in 2016. The Department of Interior re-posted it today, hours after commiting to a plan to potentially scale back protections for public lands. Photo by John D'Onofrio. Fantasy Canyon is a small parcel - about ten acres - of land surrounded by dozens of square miles of oil drilling r