President Biden will take action on Friday, October 8 to restore protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. On December 4, 2017, then-President Trump attempted to reduce the boundaries of Bears Ears by 85 percent and Grand Staircase-Escalante by nearly half, opening some lands removed from the monuments to mining and drilling. Sovereign…
Today marks the 115th anniversary of the Antiquities Act—one of the most powerful tools the President of the United States has to protect our nation’s wildlife, waters, historic and cultural sites, and landscapes by designating national monuments. Take action to stand with our national monuments! Safeguarding these important lands and waters ensure they can continue…
Your voice is critical in connecting with one another and building support to restore protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This week, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is visiting southern Utah. Her visit will influence the next steps for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, national monuments unlawfully dismantled by former President…
This month, amid a pandemic and racial reckoning, President Trump found the time to continue his attack on our public lands and waters. He announced that commercial fishing would be allowed in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, undoing a key protection for the only marine monument in the Atlantic. Allowing industrial-scale…
In the midst of the uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, our partners continue to make moves on the ground to safeguard our special wild places. Today, we bring you updates from two treasured places that have remained at the heart of the national monuments conversation: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. So what’s new? And what…
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