Maps show new reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante boundaries
SUWA says the reduced monuments are 90% smaller and plans to challenge Trump’s orders in federal court.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump signed orders slashing Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah by 90% to enable resource extraction and mining operations.
- The reduction follows a 25-year political tug-of-war and stems from a long-running campaign by Utah officials to slash the monuments and limit Indigenous oversight of ancestral lands.
- New maps from The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance show the 90% smaller boundaries, leaving sites like Grosvenor Arch unprotected while House on Fire remains within the new limits.
- "Today's action is a direct strike," stated Grand Staircase-Escalante Inter-Tribal Coalition Coordinator Autumn Gillard, arguing the proclamation destroys tribal co-stewardship frameworks over ancestral lands.
- While Utah Governor Spencer Cox applauded the move as improving management and preservation, SUWA plans to challenge the orders as "reckless and unlawful" in federal court.
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Hunters tear apart Trump admin's 'blatant misinformation' in monuments' fight
Hunters and anglers in the western United States anticipated that President Donald Trump would shrink two Utah national monuments again during his second term. When that happened Monday, many of them wanted details of how millions of acres now outside the monuments’ bounds be managed, down to issues of weed control and wildfire prevention.Instead, they’ve found themselves fact-checking Trump on the basics of his two orders slashing the size of G…
The Long War on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase
How decades of attacks on Utah’s national monuments culminated in Trump’s latest attempt to erase them. Valley of the Gods. Photo: Erik Molvar. In southern Utah, two crown-jewel landscapes have been the subject of a political tug-of-war spanning the past 25 years. On one end of the rope, Tribes, conservation groups, and the recreating public have sought – and gotten – expanded protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Mo…
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Maps show new reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante boundaries
The Bears Ears buttes, namesake of the Bears Ears National Monument, are pictured on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) After President Donald Trump signed orders to dramatically shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, environmentalists are out with new maps showing the extent of the 3 million acres that were slashed. The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, an environmental …
Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments by 90%
The Trump administration has significantly diminished the size of two national monuments in Utah that hold sacred lands and rich archaeological sites. Through a series of executive proclamations issued under the Antiquities Act this week, Trump shrunk the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments by approximately 90% each. The announcement, which comes as the president pushes to expand "energy development" on federal lands, pro…
Here’s why tribes say Trump’s Bears Ears order changed more than the map
President Donald Trump gutted the Bears Ears National Monument, which was originally proposed by five tribes. He also disbanded the Bears Ears Commission, a model for tribal co-management of federal lands.
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