The Trump administration has finalized plans to allow logging in parts of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, and coal mining and other minerals development in areas carved out of the monuments.
Bureau of Land Management officials said Thursday that the decisions provide “certainty” for public lands in southern Utah. The fate of these public lands in the West has long been the subject of political wrangling, with some Republicans opposed to presidential use of the 1906 Antiquities Act to protect federal lands from industrial development.
President Donald Trump in 2017 shrank Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national ...
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