Letter: Dugout Ranch — where cattle and climate research meet

File this under “Environmental politics make for strange bedfellows.”The Nature Conservancy owns Dugout Ranch. A buffer zone adjacent to Canyonlands National Park, it’s the largest public and private parcel within Bears Ears National Monument, a little over 20 percent of the total. The environmental group runs a climate-change research station there and a bunch of cattle.Many supporters of the monument have roundly criticized ranchers, justly in many cases, as contributing to