Program Details

Program Details

This week on Utah NOW, we're profiling Moab as a community and as a model for the "new west".

Environmentalists had hoped the city would be a new economic model for the rural American West, that it would shift away from industries like mining and cattle and instead use as its centerpiece the beauty of the land and its remarkable terrain. A few decades into this experiment and we'll see how it's working out.

Filed under the following topic(s): Society and Community, Politics and Economy, Environment.