Letter: Time to restore Bears Ears and Grand-Escalante monuments
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The two buttes that make up the namesake for the Bears Ears National Monument reveal the vast landscape, photographed Monday, May 8, 2017.
By Maurena Grossman | The Public Forum
| April 28, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Bears Ears National Monument was designated under the Antiquities Act in 2016 after a historic request from a coalition of five sovereign tribal nations, known as the Bears Ears inter-tribal coalition, for the protection of their sacred and ancestral lands. It took the coalition many years of hard work, grass-roots organizing, negotiations and public comment periods, but they finally had the designation.
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/ A new report from Utah housing advocates shows the state could lose 40% of federally subsidized rentals for older adults by 2045. This story and more in the Wednesday morning news brief.
Wednesday morning, April 28, 2021
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A new report from Utah housing advocates shows the state could
lose 40% of federally subsidized rentals for older adults by 2045. Otelo Reggy-Beane with the Utah Housing Coalition authored the report. He said subsidized units are being converted into market-rate spaces, and that forcing seniors to relocate can “negatively impact their physical and mental health and increase their likelihood of experiencing homelessness.” Reggy-Beane said many older people rely on fixed incomes, and with current housing prices, that’s not enough to afford market-rate rent. He recommended that state and local governments dedicate funds to preserving senior housing.
Fossils hint that Tyrannosaurs lived in packs
New theory based on mass death sites in Utah, elsewhere By SOPHIA EPPOLITO, Associated Press/ Report for America
Published: April 27, 2021, 6:05am
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2 Photos A Hollywood dinosaur specimen that was discovered approximately 2 miles north of the Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah on Feb. 26, 2019. (Bureau of Land Management) Photo Gallery
SALT LAKE CITY Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled found.
Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of two monuments that the Biden administration is considering restoring to their full size after former President Donald Trump shrunk them.
US Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), together with 18 more senators, sent a letter to US Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to urge her and the rest of the Biden Administration to undo unlawful attacks done to the Antiquities Act.
Originally signed by Theodore Roosevelt into law in 1906, the US Antiquities Act gives the president the authority to designate national monuments in order to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features on federal lands. It has been used more than a hundred times, by sixteen US Presidents from both parties, to protect significant locations.
Overturning Changes in the Antiquities Act