Official Letter to Secretary Perdue of Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Opposition to the Utah Roadless Rule
Official Letter to Secretary Perdue of Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Opposition to the Utah Roadless Rule
Official Letter to Secretary Perdue of Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Opposition to the Utah Roadless Rule
BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (April 24, 2019) -- The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition rejects Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s appointments to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Monument Advisory Committee (MAC) for the so-called Shash Jáa and Indian Creek National Monument Units. These “Units” were purportedly created through an illegal action by President Trump attempting t
BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (February 7, 2019) – Rising support for Bears Ears advances in the Senate. Senator Udall (D-NM) and Representative Haaland (NM-01), along with over one-hundred Congressional members, reintroduced the America’s Natural Treasures of Immeasurable Quality Unite, Inspire, and Together Improve the Economies of States Act (ANTIQUITIES Act). Hopi Tribe Vice-Chairm
BEARS EARS NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH (January 30, 2019) – The five Tribes of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition commend Representatives Ruben Gallego (AZ-07) and Deb Haaland (NM-01) for their introduction of the Bears Ears Expansion and Respect for Sovereignty Act (BEARS Act). The BEARS Act would expand the protections of the Bears Ears National Monument to the Coalition’s initially propos
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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...
Leaders of the five Tribes that advocated for creation of the Bears Ears National Monument expressed their strong opposition to H.R. 4532, the “Shash Jáa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act,” sponsored by Representative John Curtis (R, Utah), and heard today in the Subcommittee on Federal Lands of the House Committee on Natural Resources...
President Trump’s action to revoke and replace the Bears Ears National Monument is not only an attack on the five sovereign nations with deep ties to the Bears Ears region, it is a complete violation of the separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution...