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Question of the Day FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., is sworn in before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior Secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Watson/Pool . more > By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 17, 2021
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Newly confirmed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is planning to visit Utah next month before submitting a review on whether to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to shrink national monuments in the state, the agency announced Wednesday.
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As Biden mulls reversing Trump’s monument cuts, researchers urge him to go big
Mar. 16, 2021 , 4:45 PM
When paleontologist Rob Gay returned to his research sites at the Bears Ears National Monument last month after a long absence, he wasn’t sure what he would find. Former President Donald Trump had shrunk the monument, created by former President Barack Obama, by 85% and weakened protections for sites holding fossils and cultural artifacts. Gay spotted new off-road vehicle tracks in the vermillion-hued soil. But thankfully, he says, his sites had not been damaged.
Gay is just one of many researchers and Native American officials urging President Joe Biden to reverse Trump’s downsizing of Bear Ears and even expand it. Doing so would not only restore stricter protections for numerous sites, but also free up federal funding for surveys, research, and preservation efforts. But although the Biden administration has hinted that it will reverse Trump’s order and the decision coul
Who Bears the Consequences? Discontinuity in the protection of Bears Ears National Monument
Who Bears the Consequences? Discontinuity in the protection of Bears Ears National Monument
March 14, 2021
Each year, hundreds of thousands of wanderlusting adventure-seekers travel to Blanding, Utah, a quaint town with a population of under 4,000 people located in the southeastern corner of the state. What intrigues these excited travelers? The answer is simple: Blanding is home to the breathtaking Bears Ears National Monument. What some visitors may not expect, however, are posters, bumper stickers, and billboards protesting the exact attraction that they came to see.
Bears Ears was thrust into the spotlight in 2016 when President Obama issued an executive order naming it a national monument before leaving office. Just a year later, President Trump reduced its acreage, and now President Biden plans to re-expand the monument to its original size, most likely by way of another executive or
Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk: Deb Haalandâs nomination represents a moment of healing for Indigenous people and the land
This Feb. 21, 2021, photo shows a billboard in Billings, Montana, displays support for New Mexico U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, who has been nominated to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior. Native Americans will be watching her confirmation hearing closely on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. If confirmed, she would be the first Native American to lead the agency that has broad oversight over tribal affairs and energy development. (AP Photo/Matt Brown)
By Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk | Special to The Tribune
  | March 14, 2021, 4:00 p.m.
As an Indigenous woman from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Iâve learned early on how womenâs voices, like mine, are critical to the world. Our voices matter in order to bring about healing and change. I always think about the struggles that I have gone through to get there, from grade school to graduating high school, and now as