The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing last week to demonstrate the extent of the Trump Administration’s attempts to ignore Native American Tribes, science, and local communities in the pursuit of eliminating protections for more than 2 million acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Thankfully, new proposals would restore Grand…

Our national monuments and public lands and waters help define who we are as a nation by telling the story of our shared cultural, natural, and historic heritage. Since President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, 17 Presidents – 9 Republicans and 8 Democrats – have used it to protect cherished places across…

One year after Trump’s decimation of Utah monuments, more than 500,000 comments reveal a country still active in fight for U.S. public lands BLUFF, UTAH – Organizations in Utah announced Tuesday that Americans across the country submitted more than 500,000 comments on the future of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This outsized response…

Grand Staircase-Escalante was designated as a National Monument to safeguard the incredible scientific, ecological, cultural, and paleontological wonders within its 1.9 million acres. But despite pending litigation, a new Department of the Interior proposal would sacrifice hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands to future drilling, mining, and other development while the courts determine…

Bears Ears National Monument is a Native American-led effort to protect ancestral lands of the Diné, Hopi, Ute, Zuni and Ancestral Puebloan peoples. But despite pending litigation, a new Department of the Interior proposal would leave important cultural resources at risk while the courts determine the legality of President Trump’s proclamation to reduce the monument’s…