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ScienceAlert
April 19, 2018
Last week, Zinke used his "scientific expertise" to defend the shrinking of Bear Ears national monument after emails revealed that the decision was based on oil exploration. "I'm a geologist," he said. "I can assure you that oil and gas in Bears Ears was not part of my decision matrix. A geologist will tell youÃâà...
Earth.com
April 17, 2018
The North Face makes their support of Bear Ears National Monument very clear on their website. They sell hoodies and shirts with the phrase 'Protect Bears Ears and an image of the monument, all proceeds of the sales given to Bears Ears Inter-tribal Coalition, a non-profit suing Trump for reducing BearsÃâà...
New Mexico Political Report
April 10, 2018
At the end of March, a federal court said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has not adequately considered protection of cultural sites near Chaco Culture National Historical Park when granting permits for oil and gas drilling. The full order is still forthcoming, but the six-page memo by JudgeÃâà...
The Daily Herald
April 3, 2018
The former Montana congressman, during his term in the Trump administration, has not endeared himself to most conservationists and recreationalists, specifically for his proposal to shrink four national monuments, including Bear's Ears National Monument in Utah; a plan to nearly double the entrance feesÃâà...
Natural Resources Defense Council
April 3, 2018
In Utah, Interior Secretary Zinke proposed to eliminate Bear's Ears National Monument, a decision now in litigation by NRDC and others. Last year, Governor Brown signed in to law, SB 50 by California Senator Ben Allen, with NRDC's strong support. SB 50 is designed to give California a chance to keepÃâà...
New York Times
March 3, 2018
The debate started as early as March 2017, when an aide to Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, asked a senior Interior Department official to consider shrinking Bears Ears National Monument in the southeastern corner of the state. Under a longstanding program in Utah, oil and natural gas depositsÃâà...
The Simmons Voice
February 20, 2018
The Trump administration downsized two national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, by 2 million acres in December. This act has continued to be protested by Native American groups, environmentalists, organizations, scientists, and citizens, in hopes to reverse and prevent theÃâà...
Deseret News
February 10, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY — Police are searching for two vandals after a proclamation in support of the Bears Ears National Monument was found spray-painted across a wall of the Senate Building at the Utah Capitol complex early Saturday. The red lettering found on the east side of the Senate Building declaredÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
February 9, 2018
During the committee hearing for HB136, Noel falsely accused, though not under oath, the organization representing the five tribes advocating for Bear Ears National Monument of accepting significant funding from conservation organizations like the Grand Canyon Trust. This charge pales in comparison toÃâà...
The Western Journal
February 9, 2018
No company has applied to mine within the former boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument since President Donald Trump's cut to national ... “Trump's monstrous move to slash Bear's Ears' area by 85 percent and sell it off to mining and oil interests is a violent attack on Indigenous rights andÃâà...
New York Times
December 8, 2017
Bears Ears has attracted controversy since President Obama announced in December 2016 that he would protect the 1.35 million-acre site in southeastern Utah as a national monument. Republicans were quick to denounce the large, late-term declaration as a “federal land grab” and an overreach ofÃâà...
The Hill
September 28, 2017
What benefit to the Navajo people would ever come from the Navajo Nation threatening to sue the Federal Government over Bears Ears National Monument being reduced? Suing the government over the anticipation of reducing Bears Ears National Monument issues pays more lip service on the landÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
September 17, 2017
That report came out right after Utah officials provided Interior with their proposed Bear Ears maps. The state's plan also calls for a national recreation area for Indian Creek, the monument's northeast extension bordering Canyonlands National Park. The world renown rock-climbing mecca would beÃâà...
Denver Business Journal
December 31, 1999
A Lakewood uranium company said it's received federal approval to expand its uranium/vanadium mines near Moab, Utah. Energy Fuels Inc. (NYSE: UUUU) said it's gotten approval from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to expand its La Sal Complex in northeast San JuanÃâà...
Salon
December 31, 1999
In December 2016, President Barack Obama designated a wide area of Utah known as Bears Ears as a national monument, writing, "Protection of the Bears Ears area will preserve its cultural, prehistoric, and historic legacy and maintain its diverse array of natural and scientific resources, ensuring that theÃâà...
