The Biden Administration’s Conservation Plan Must Prioritize Indigenous Leadership
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Newly elected President Joe Biden, in his Plan for Tribal Nations, promised to “provide tribes with a greater role in the care and management of public lands that are of cultural significance to Tribal Nations.”
1 This is one of the most powerful, consequential commitments he made during his campaign, signaling a recognition of and willingness to confront three fundamental injustices that affect nearly all aspects of U.S. natural resource policy.
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First, all public lands that the U.S. government owns and manages were stolen from Native Americans and Alaska Natives, often through violence, genocide, and forced removal.
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Utah s Hogle Zoo is saying good-bye next week to five-year-old polar bear, Hope. She s heading to an accredited zoo in the Midwest at the end of January to be a part of the breeding program for this critically endangered species. This story and more in the Tuesday morning news brief.
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A Utah County lawmaker has introduced a bill to bring more oversight to youth treatment programs in the state. If passed, it would dramatically increase reporting and inspections within youth residential treatment facilities in Utah. It also includes new requirements for how treatment centers can use restraints and seclusion and introduces gender-based non-discrimination mandates on the basis of gender. Read the full story.
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) believes President Joe Biden isn’t taking his call for unity to heart. Following Inauguration Day, President Biden signed an unprecedented number of executive orders including one to
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With the stroke of a pen, President Joe Biden could return Utah’s two largest national monuments to their original sizes. Instead, he opted to open a 60-day review into how his predecessor shrunk the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by 2 million acres, leaving open a range of options for the new administration.
An executive order issued Wednesday instructs the Interior Secretary, a post likely to be filled by Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, to submit findings and recommendations for moving forward on the future of these landscapes that have been ground zero in Utah’s public lands battles going back nearly a century.