Following a presidential proclamation that shrank Bears Ears National Monument by 90 percent and disbanded its historic Inter-Tribal Commission, the federal government is removing tribal seals from the monument’s entrance signs. BLM removes tribal seals from monuments in Utah, after Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Commission ordered disbanded (Photo: Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition) Published July 23, 2026
Published on July 16, 2026 09:06 pm For the second time in less than a decade, the White House is trying to shrink Bears Ears National Monument. Following its first cut in 2017 and subsequent reversal, the Trump administration announced on July 12 that it would cut the size of Bears Ears by 91 percent.
This month’s cuts leave a list of key cultural sites, backpacking routes and canyons outside the boundaries of national monuments, potentially leaving them vulnerable to drilling and mining. A map created by The Wilderness Society showing cuts in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. (Photo: The Wilderness Society) Updated July 15, 2026 02:30 pm
For more than a century, the 1906 Antiquities Act has given the President extraordinary power over public lands. With a quick stroke of the pen, the President can create a national monument on federal lands to protect historic sites or structures. Since the bill was passed, 18 presidents have created 168 national monuments, but in
Updated July 13, 2026 07:41 pm President Donald Trump shrank the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in an executive order signed at a ceremony Monday afternoon in the presence of Utah legislators, cutting the protected areas by a combined 3 million acres. The order reduced the size of Bears Ears to
Published July 13, 2026 05:12 pm President Trump signed an executive order on July 13 reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah by nearly 3 million acres, leaving them at a fraction of their originally designated size. under him newly signed orderTrump reduced Bears Ears National Monument by about 121,000 acres and Grand
As wildfires rage and courts escalate battles over boundaries, the president is reportedly targeting Utah’s two largest national monuments. listen to this articleHear An arch in Bears Ears National Monument. (Photo: Adam Roy) Updated July 10, 2026 06:27 pm Lawyers for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments are vowing to take the Trump administration
Wildfire burning on public lands in southern Utah now at more than 38,000 acres and zero percent contained listen to this articleHear Babylon Wildfire from Canyonlands (Photo: NPS) Published June 29, 2026 02:01 pm The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) closed Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument and Dark Canyon Wilderness on Sunday, June 28, due to
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