Generally, it is not a good idea for any civilization to willfully forget any part of its history. Even the bad parts. Especially the bad parts.
But in the case of two major national monuments that stand within the borders of the state of Utah, the best thing we could do might be to forget that the last four years ever happened.
Reports out of Washington suggest this is, in effect, what Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is recommending to President Joe Biden for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Just erase the unwise and almost certainly illegal actions taken by the Trump administration to shrink each of those monuments and put them back the way they were...