(Courtesy photo | National Park Service) The Bureau of Land Management has closed access to Hovenweep National Monument's Cutthroat Castle after a new property owner objected to the public using a BLM road across his land to reach this Ancestral Puebloan ruin and other sites in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.
Brian Maffly has worked for The Tribune off and on since 1994. Maffly roams Utah, covering public land and environment.