Trump shrinks Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah
The move would slash protections on nearly 3 million acres and reopen the monuments to mining and energy development, officials said.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order reducing the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, undoing protections established by previous administrations on sacred public lands.
- Trump Interior Secretary Doug Burgum initiated the review to expand U.S. energy production, fulfilling a goal of Utah officials who long argued the state should control its own lands for mining coal and uranium.
- Davina Smith-Idjesa, co-chair of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, called the reduction "heartbreaking," saying the area is a "living cultural site" holding tribal histories, ceremonies, and ancestral footprints.
- The executive action triggers new legal challenges over whether a president has authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act to alter boundaries of existing monuments, a power legally contested between federal and state officials.
- Administration policies aim to tap natural resource wealth across more than 100,000 square miles of federal lands, reversing the Biden-era goal to conserve at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
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During his first term in office, the Republican president had already announced that the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument had been amputated, but these reductions had been cancelled in 2021 by Joe Biden.
Donald Trump perhaps undirrittaði í gær possetatilskipanir sans fela í ser að tvö friðuð svæði í Utah verða minnkuð niður í un það bil einn tiunda af nuverandi stærð. Čar meða verða milljónir hektara af vernduðu landi opnaðar fyrir vinnslu jarðefnaeldsneytis og námuvinnslu. Trump undirrittaði yfirlýsingararar al fundi í Hvíta husinu asamt embættismönnum Repúblikanafloksins, tár meðal rikisstjóra Utah og...
President Trump Just Undid Biden’s Massive 3-Million-Acre Utah Land Grab
President Trump just erased one of Joe Biden’s biggest federal land power grabs. With two proclamations signed Monday, Trump sharply reduced the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The numbers are enormous. Nearly 3 million acres are being removed from the monument boundaries and returned to ordinary multiple-use federal land management. That does not mean the land is being sold, privatized, or stripped of every …
Trump slashes 3 million acres from Utah monuments
President Trump signed two executive orders Monday slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, reversing Biden-era expansions and reigniting a decades-long battle over presidential authority under the Antiquities Act.
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