[News] Trump Cuts Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by Roughly 90 Percent, Reviving the Public-Lands Fight
President Trump signed two Antiquities Act proclamations cutting Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments from a combined 3.2 million acres to roughly 302,600, reopening the excluded land to mining and reviving an unresolved fight over whether a president may shrink a monument a predecessor created.
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