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Biden Administration Has Opportunity to Protect Remarkable Public Lands

Biden Administration Has Opportunity to Protect Remarkable Public Lands
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Utah lawmakers ask for more time, permanent legislative action on national monuments

On Monday, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and the other members of Utah’s congressional delegation sent a letter to President Joe Biden regarding the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. “We call upon you, and your administration, to support and engage in finding a long-term legislative solution and stop the vacillation of national monument boundaries in Utah,” the letter reads. “We remain prepared to work in good faith and hope you do as well.” In their letter, the Utah representatives asked the Biden administration for their assistance in finding a permanent legislative solution to these boundary disputes and statutory protections to prevent abuses of the Antiquities Act.

The Writing on the Wall

camera icon © STEPHEN ALVAREZ “I was like a petulant child,” recalled Alvarez, now 56, with a laugh. After months of working beneath the surface of Paris, exploring centuries-old quarries and catacombs, “I was like, I don’t want to go underground and see a bad reproduction of bad caveman art.” Nonetheless, on the appointed day, he dutifully shuffled into the dim chamber with his wife, two children and a small group of visitors. The lights clicked on, and reproductions of the magnificent 17,000-year-old paintings and engravings came into view. “Everyone in the room, maybe 20 of us in the tour, gasps, because the artwork and this is just the reproduction of the artwork is so sophisticated,” he said. “I thought ancient people were intellectually primitive, and clearly they’re not.”

Right-wing militias are already taking up arms against the Biden administration

collaboration. In October 2019, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland led a House subcommittee hearing on the effects of anti-government extremism on federal land management officials. The Government Accountability Office had recently documented more than 350 incidents of threats and assaults targeting land management employees between 2013 and 2017. As the watchdog group noted, even that data did not capture the full picture, in part because not all incidents are reported. Some officials told investigators they “consider receiving threats a normal part of their job.” Advertisement Haaland, then in her first congressional term, stressed that these “extremist ideologies did not develop in a vacuum.” She read aloud a quote from former Nevada Sen. Dean Heller on the 2014 armed standoff between federal agents and militias at Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s ranch, in which Heller praised the armed men as “patriots.” And she noted that Nevada state Rep. Michele Fiore had supported t

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