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President Donald Trump shrunk Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments during his first term, citing local opposition to the designations. He cut Grand Staircase-Escalante’s ...

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The last Trump administration also targeted two of the monuments in question — shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 85 percent and in half, respectively.

If you do a job badly, chances are you won’t be asked to do it again. That is the most likely motivation for the Trump administration’s moves to make large cuts in the already overworked ...

The monuments proposed for cuts include two shrunk by President Donald Trump in his first term: the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The other sites are the ...

The other five national monuments mentioned were Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, Ironwood Forest, Chuckwalla, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

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Once again, the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah are potentially on a political merry-go-round for rumored development of mining and oil drilling. As reported in The ...