BY LAUREL MORALES
In his last days in office President Obama still has the power to make significant changes to the southwest.
Obama has already used the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate 23 national monuments -- more than any other president. And many American Indian tribes are hoping he takes action on at least one more proposal.
Some of the geological formations in the southwest look like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, and Bears Ears is one of those places.
It’s a pair of buttes, or steep hills, that emerge from the ground in southern Utah. They’re covered on one side by a ponderosa pine forest and the other by scrubby piñon-juniper trees...