BY ERIC TRENBEATH
Frustrated by the pace of the Public Lands Initiative process, the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition has ceased negotiations with Utah's congressional delegation, and will instead encourage the Obama administration to designate a national monument in southeastern Utah.
In a letter to GOP Reps. Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz, the coalition cites missed deadlines, a lack of substantive comments to its proposal and “raw, heavy-handed, political overreaching,” as reasons for its withdrawal...