The five Tribal Nations of the Bears Ears Commission remain committed to protecting their sacred ancestral homelands through collaborative management and Tribal leadership.
BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UT — Yesterday, President Trump issued a proclamation dramatically reducing Bears Ears National Monument and terminating the Bears Ears Commission, undermining years of progress in collaborative management. The decision weakens protections for a living cultural landscape and sacred ancestral homeland that has been cared for by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial and is a major setback to one of the nation’s most extraordinary models of collaborative management of public lands between Tribal Nations and federal agencies.