Bears Ears National Monument

A Canadian Firm Prepares To Mine Land Trump Cut From Monument Protection

The company has entered into an agreement to purchase mineral rights to a former copper mine site within the original boundary of Grand Staircase-Escalante.
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Emails Show Interior Expected To Learn Nothing From Public Input On Bears Ears Review

“Essentially, barring a surprise, there is no new information that’s going to be submitted,” an agency official said.
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Trump Opened Bears Ears Monument To Mining, So We Went To Stake A Claim

Obtaining mineral rights is easy through America's antiquated system. Doing anything with them is hard.
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Trump’s Cut To Utah Monument Is A 'Worst-Case Scenario’ For Historic Sites

The new Bears Ears National Monument boundary strips protections for approximately three-fourths of known archaeological treasures.
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Paleontologist Talks About Fossil ‘Find Of A Lifetime’ In Area Cut From Bears Ears

“I will probably spend the rest of my career working on this site," said paleontologist Robert Gay.
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First National Monument Scoping Meeting In Utah Puts Stark Divisions On Display

Supporters of Bears Ears see Trump’s rollback of protected land as “tragic.” Others say it didn’t go far enough.
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Tribes Come Together For Fight To Bring Back Protections For Bears Ears National Monument

“Losing Bears Ears to a cloud of industrial smoke from extraction and mining does not keep that preservation of life for us,” said one Navajo woman.
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Jaw-Dropping Fossils Discovered In Bears Ears Where Trump Just Gutted Protections

Fossils face another extinction courtesy of the president.
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Land Stripped From Utah National Monuments Opens To Mining Claims Friday

In December, President Donald Trump cut more than 2 million acres from a pair of protected Utah sites.
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Republicans Look To Enshrine Donald Trump's Cuts To National Monuments

Tribal leaders view Rep. John Curtis' bill on Bears Ears as another "shameful" attack on sovereignty.
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