
President Donald Trump has approved a significant reduction in the size of two national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Each monument will lose approximately 1.5 million acres, opening the land to potential development by corporate and oil and gas interests. The decision, which reverses protections established by previous administrations, has drawn criticism from Native American tribes who consider the areas sacred.
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Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante are sacred to tribes
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The monuments are held sacred by many Native Americans.
The Guardian<p>Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah will lose ‘close to a million and a half acres each’ and open land to developers and oil industry</p><p>Donald Trump has approved a sharp reduction in the size of two national monuments in Utah held sacred by many Native Americans, in the latest move to open US public land to corporate developers and the oil and gas industry.</p><p>The two…
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The monuments are held sacred by many Native Americans.
The GuardianThe executive order undoes protections established by former presidents.
The GuardianDonald Trump approved a sharp reduction in the size of two national monuments in Utah.
The GuardianThe two monuments are Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
The GuardianTrump signed an executive order on Monday to enact the reduction.
The GuardianThe reduction opens public land to corporate developers and the oil and gas industry.
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