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We Have Tried Every Path to Protect Bears Ears — And We Are Still Here
For generations, the five Tribes of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition have worked to protect Bears Ears, a sacred landscape rich with history and cultural significance. Despite past setbacks, the commitment to Tribal-led stewardship and lasting protections remains strong. Read more about this effort in Curtis Yanito’s latest letter to the editor, published in the 3/12/25 edition of the San Juan Record.
New Polling Confirms Overwhelming Support for Bears Ears and Tribal-Led Conservation
New polling confirms that strong bipartisan majorities in Utah and across the Mountain West support protecting Bears Ears and other national monuments. Voters overwhelmingly back Tribal-led stewardship, conservation, and the preservation of public lands over extractive development.
Setting a National Standard for Collaborative Management, Bears Ears Resource Management Plan Finalized
The Bears Ears Commission proudly announces the finalization of the Bears Ears Resource Management Plan (RMP), a historic achievement that highlights unity, trust, and shared responsibility in the stewardship of Bears Ears National Monument. Developed through years of collaboration between the five Commission Tribes and federal agencies, this plan emphasizes cultural preservation, ecological integrity, and Traditional Knowledge to ensure the protection of this sacred landscape for future generations.
Why We Are Here
By visiting Bears Ears, giving our prayers, and conducting our ceremonies, we heal our bodies and help heal the land itself.
Our Approach
Beyond just protection, these lands will be managed in an entirely new way incorporating Native American traditional knowledge as an intellectual partner to western science, where the land and all its component parts are the mentor, the teacher, the healer, and where all our other-than-human relatives are honored and respected in a dance of reciprocity.
Our Goal
To assure that the Bears Ears area will be managed forever with the greatest environmental sensitivity and healing of the land to make it fully a place where we can be among our ancestors and their songs and wisdom and our deepest values, where the traumas of the past can be alleviated, where we can connect with the land and be healed. A monument to all of these values will speak to the finest dreams of our people and those of the people of the nation and the world as well.
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Explore Remarkable Places in Bears Ears
Please read our respectful visitation guidelines if you plan on traveling to any of these culturally significant places.
