A red rock wilderness stretches for miles beneath an endless sky, where ancient cliff dwellings cling to canyon walls and ...

President Donald Trump shrunk Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments during his first term, citing local opposition to the designations. He cut Grand Staircase-Escalante’s ...

President Donald Trump is shrinking two national monuments in Utah, accepting the recommendation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to reverse protections established by two Democratic presidents, a ...

The list, they added, includes Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, Ironwood Forest, Chuckwalla, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase ...

The administration ended up slashing Bears Ears by 85% — more than a million acres — and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 45%. Ryan Zinke, Trump’s first interior secretary, also eyed Ironwood ...

Once again, the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah are potentially on a political merry-go-round for rumored development of mining and oil drilling. As reported in The ...

President Donald Trump shrunk Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments during his first term, citing local opposition to the designations. He cut Grand Staircase-Escalante’s acreage ...

During his first administration, President Donald Trump moved to cut down the size of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in Utah, but the Biden administration subsequently rolled ...

In addition to the monument in Southern New Mexico, the Post names ones in Utah, Arizona and California, including Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, Ironwood Forest, ...

The department is also “looking at whether to scale back” national monuments, including Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, Ironwood Forest, Chuckwalla, Organ ...