Sierra Club. “In addition to providing a misleading bill name to suggest that the Navajo Nation supports the bill, H.R. 4532 also misleadingly states that its purpose is to ‘create the first tribally managed national monument... This bill’s ‘tribal management’ is tribal in name only.”
New York Times. "President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history."
U.S. Senator Tom Udall, vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, called Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendations to reduce the size of Bears Ears National Monument "deeply disrespectful and insulting" to the Native American Tribes who urged protection for the culturally significant region.
Salt Lake Tribune. "Interior secretary says he arrives in Utah "without any predisposition of outcome" ahead of June 10 deadline to recommend the future of new monument to Trump."
Official Obama White House Press Release.
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