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Trump's national monument plan could easily fail — but he'll still declare victorylatimes.com
Trump's plan to scrap national monuments is legally shaky. But the theater around it makes for good politics for him. -
Ryan Zinke, interior secretary, admires monuments before review to revoke designationswashingtontimes.com
Based on the beautiful pictures and effusive praise he has posted to Twitter this week from one of the nation’s newest national monuments, you might never guess that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke could set into motion the process to erase it from the map. -
‘Culture war’ plays out at Grand Staircase monumentusatoday.com
A clear clash of cultures was at play Wednesday as the two sides of a 20-year-old debate over the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument tried to make their case to visiting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. -
I gave Utah a voice, Zinke says as he departs from national-monument tripsltrib.com
Kanab • Surrounded on the tarmac by an entourage of national monument opponents while full-throated advocates tried to drown him out from the runway fenceline, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Utahns had been granted a ... -
The Case for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - Center for American Progressamericanprogress.org
President Trump is waging an attack on America’s national parks and monuments, specifically targeting Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante. -
Printed Letters: May 7, 2017 | GJSentinel.comgjsentinel.com
Grand Junction - Bears Ears is worthy of monument designation We just returned home from a week at Bears Ears National Monument. It is not only beautiful, -
Op-ed: Bears Ears has special meaning for Mormons, toosltrib.com
This week’s news carried the story that President Trump intends to call for a review of all recent national monument designations. There will surely be special attention paid to Bears Ears National Monument. As a ... -
Op-ed: A local view of Bears Ears National Monumentsltrib.com
When President Trump signed his executive order directing a review of national monuments designated since 1996, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said, “The view from the Potomac is a lot different than the view from the ... -
Robert Redford: Don't take Bears Ears away from ussltrib.com
As a Utah resident of more than 50 years, I am deeply troubled by President Trump’s recent decision, at the request of Utah’s congressional leaders, to explore rescinding or shrinking the boundaries of Bears Ears ... -
Opinion | Will Bears Ears Be the Next Standing Rock?nytimes.com
President Trump’s plan to review and possibly reverse his predecessor’s protection of a wild swath of Utah threatens Indian sovereignty. -
Supporters of Bears Ears, Grand Staircase rally in advance of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's visitsltrib.com
After his birth in Utah’s Monument Valley, James Adakai’s umbilical cord was buried at Bears Ears. The Navajo Nation’s commissioner for Bears Ears now worries such a sacred spot will be lost unless Interior Secretary ... -
Zinke flies over Bears Ears as critics urge him to 'Make San Juan County Great Again' and rescind monumentsltrib.com
Blanding • When Hank Stevens’ family hunted under Bears Ears Buttes, they always honored the deer whose life they had taken and the place that nurtured it. “We respect the animal where it dropped,” said ... -
Tribal leaders demand apology from Hatch after he said they 'don't fully understand' Bears Ears implicationssltrib.com
After Sen. Orrin Hatch said Sunday that American Indians “don’t fully understand” what they would lose if Bears Ears is “made clearly into a monument,” tribal leaders have called his comments offensive, and they demand ... -
Interior Turns Down Meetings With 2 Groups Supporting Utah Monuments - Morning Consultmorningconsult.com
The Department of the Interior turned down meetings this week with at least two groups supporting national monument designations in Utah, spurring complaints that the Trump administration’s review of monuments may be one-sided. -
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Opinion | Trump’s promise to bring back coal jobs is worse than a conwashingtonpost.com
Market forces are sending coal the way of asbestos. -
SUWA Statement on President Trump's Expected Executive Order on National Monumentssuwa.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2017 Scott Groene, Executive Director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, released the following statement regarding the Executive Order that President Trump is expected to sign tomorrow directing Interior Secretar... -
Navajo Leadership Participates in Discussions with Feds Regarding the Bears Ears National Monumentnativenewsonline.net
Published April 26, 2017 TOWAOC, COLORADO – On Friday, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Davis Filfred (Mexican Water, Aneth, Teecnospos, Tółikan, Red Mesa), who also serves as a commissioner on the … -
Interior Secretary Zinke: Bears Ears at center of national monument reviewdeseretnews.com
"There is no doubt I am going out there," Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Tuesday, discussing Utah and the Bears Ears National Monument in a press briefing. He said Trump's coming executive order o -
4 things you need to know about Trump’s attack on National Parks and Monumentsthinkprogress.org
Millions of acres could see protections removed.