US Plans for Bears Ears Protection as Monument’s Future Unclear

The Biden administration on Thursday published its proposed management plan for the Bears Ears National Monument, which the state of Utah and several counties and residents have pressed courts to abolish.

The plan is the first to determine how the Utah monument will be managed and could affect whether people with private interests in the monument could have standing to sue. Bears Ears, which is larger than the state of Delaware and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, and a coalition of area tribes, protects a vast landscape of red sandstone buttes and canyons ...