BY ZOË CARPENTER
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke likes to talk about listening. “This is the first time in a monument that we’ve given the public a say,” Zinke claimed last week during a swing through Utah to inspect the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. “I’m in listening mode,” he said at another point in the trip. Those monuments, along with more than 20 others, are the subject of a review ordered in April by President Trump, who indicated that he will consider diminishing or revoking their protections. Zinke describes the review as a chance to hear from local people overlooked by Washington bureaucrats. “Finally, rural America has a voice again,” he declared when Trump ordered the review...