BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH — It is late December and there is a sense of anticipation in the air as we approach the second anniversary when President Obama declared the Bears Ears National Monument on December 28, 2016. After years of local and regional activism from tribal leaders, community members and advocacy groups, the work of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition (“Coalition”
On Friday, March 2, 2018, the New York Times reported on a trove of documents released on the process leading up to President Trump’s December 2017 Presidential Proclamation which purported to overturn President Obama’s creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah...
Leaders of the five Tribes defending Bears Ears National Monument are disturbed by Representative John Curtis’ (R, Utah) continued defense of his bill (H.R. 4532) to legislatively confirm the President’s unlawful action rescinding and replacing the monument...
