Kenny Wintch joined Bears Ears Partnership (BEP) in 2019 to advocate for the cultural landscape where Wintch focused his graduate research in the 1980s: the Recapture and Montezuma Canyon drainages of southeastern Utah. Wintch obtained his master’s degree in Anthropology from Brigham Young University in 1990 and spent most of his career employed by the State of Utah, establishing and leading the Cultural Resource Management (CRM) programs for the state’s highway department (i.e., UDOT) and then the state’s trust lands management agency (aka, SITLA or TLA). Since coming to BEP Wintch has been engaged in a research project on Utah’s Cedar Mesa using LiDAR to document Ancestral Puebloan roads there, and has become a student—and supporter—of cultural landscape research and its application across the Central Mesa Verde Region.