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A red rock wilderness stretches for miles beneath an endless sky, where ancient cliff dwellings cling to canyon walls and ...
Rumors that six national monuments may soon be rolled back are raising concerns about public lands protections.
the only licensed and operating uranium mill in the United States, sits adjacent to an area that Trump cut from Bears Ears National Monument. The cuts also removed many mining claims from the ...
Grand Staircase-Escalante was cut back from nearly 1.9 million acres to three units, the 211,983-acre Grand Staircase, the 551,117-acre Kaiparowits, and the 243,241-acre Escalante Canyons.
Reports that the Trump administration was eyeing six national monuments in the West for energy development drew promises ...
The push would spark an intense legal fight over the right of a president to grant sweeping lands protections under the 1906 ...
A complete history of Bears Ears, from a Utah tribe's meeting with the government to Obama's signed National Monument seven years later. Designating a National Monument is a popular legacy ...
President Bill Clinton used that authority to create Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 1996, as did President Barack Obama when he established Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.
Western Democrats are pressuring President Donald Trump not to rescind land protections put in place by President Barack Obama, including Utah's Bears Ears National Monument. President Barack ...
In 2017, Trump ordered a review of more than 25 monuments with the goal of mining, drilling and logging on public lands. The administration ended up slashing Bears Ears by 85% — more than a ...
The list, they added, includes Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, Ironwood Forest, Chuckwalla, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase ...