Category Archives: Escalante, UT

While lawyers argue, it’s past time to physically protect Utah’s public lands

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The Salt Lake Tribune) U.S. President Donald Trump, surrounded by Utah representatives looks at Sen. Orrin Hatch to give him the pen used to signs a presidential proclamation to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments at the Utah Capitol on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017. Depends on whom you ask.

Utah Navajo, Elected Leaders, Urge Against Bears Ears Monument

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Washington, D.C.-Local leaders and members of Utah's Navajo Nation made a plea for a cooperative legislative effort rather than an executive order for the proposed Bears Ears National Monument Wednesday. Speaking from the nation's capitol, the delegation asked President Barack Obama to hold off on signing an executive order that would make the Bears Ears area in San Juan County a national monument in favor of protecting the land via Rep. Rob Bishop's forthcoming Public Lands Initiative legislation.