The Nature Conservancy is pitted against the Western Watersheds Project in an effort to put in reservoirs and fencing for the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of the Trump administration’s push to expand U.S. energy production, federal officials will review ...

Among the sites most at risk are Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, where state officials fought against their creation. Grand Staircase-Escalante holds large ...

Conservation groups in Utah and across the country have sounded the alarm that Trump will open more public lands to development — like by slashing Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National ...

In other news, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments could shrink again under President Trump. And, a ...

A co-management plan is operating at Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, and Kate Magargal, an anthropologist at the ...

Federal officials will review and potentially redraw the boundaries of national monuments created in past presidencies, ...

A comprehensive — and controversial order — by newly confirmed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directs a review of withdrawals ...

The Department of the Interior will start taking “actions to review and, where appropriate, revise all withdrawn public lands,” like national monuments.

Two federal agencies recently approved the resource management plan for Bears Ears National Monument, even as one freshman lawmaker from Utah wants to strip presidential authority to create monuments.

A new poll has revealed strong bipartisan support among Utah voters for the continued protection of public lands as national ...

(Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) With the incoming Trump administration expected to again reduce Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, new polling suggests that ...