Native News Online. “So, in striving to protect our culture, our religious and spiritual freedoms, our sovereignty and our treaty rights – all of which are encapsulated in the grizzly issue – we are ‘destroying’ Cheney’s idea of the ‘Western way of life’?” asked Tom Rogers.
The Salt Lake Tribune. "Conservation groups called the Pendley appointment an alarming choice, while Western ranchers called it a welcome move that shows the Trump administration is serious about opening public lands to all uses, including mining and ranching."
Washington Post. "The new plan for the nearly 202,000-acre expanse of public land, which removes five Native American tribes from the management board of a monument they fought to designate, drew immediate protest from conservation and tribal groups."
PBS News Hour. "The U.S. government has decided to allow off-road vehicles access to some archaeologically sensitive land at a Utah national monument that houses sacred tribal sites."
LA Times. "Last week, the Trump administration announced a plan to move the Bureau of Land Management’s top officials out of Washington and into regional western offices... BLM officials — stewards of lands belonging to the nation, not to states, counties or municipalities — are supposed to serve the interests of us all."
Press Release from the office of Rep. Bipartisan legislation introduced to protect Native rights and food sovereignty.
Bloomberg Environment. Is the BLM avoiding its federal trust responsibility?
SUWA. "The BLM is pulling back its leasing decisions because the agency has recognized that it failed to fully analyze the greenhouse gas emissions and climate change impacts of those decisions in determining whether leasing is appropriate in the first instance."
The Salt Lake Tribune. BEITC Tribal Leader James Adakai says, "It’s very significant for the people to be able to participate in the democratic process by having access to the county commission."
Natural Gas Intelligence. DOE to "invest nearly $8 million in a research project conducted by the University of Utah into the geology of the Paradox Basin to test its oil and natural gas potential." Basin includes land of original Bears Ears National Monument cut by Trump administration in 2017.