New management plans for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument allow destructive pinyon and juniper removal projects to "improve" the land for cattle.
Last month, the Trump administration unraveled a bargain the Trust brokered two decades ago that kept cattle out of the Escalante River and its side canyons.
Instead of protecting resources in Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, new management plans put fossils, cultural resources, wildlife, and wildlands in harm's way.
