BY THOMAS BURR
Washington—President Barack Obama has used his authority to preserve more land and water than any other president, and the White House says it still has "big ambitions" in the final year of his presidency.
That could mean action on the proposed 1.9-million-acre Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, a move that Utah's six members of Congress urged Obama against Friday as the president designated three new national monuments covering 1.8 million acres of the California desert.