An August 2026 poll shows strong support among Utah voters for restoring protections to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
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Utah voters strongly support national monuments and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in particular, an August 2026 poll shows.
An August 2026 poll of 500 Utah voters found strong support for national monuments, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
Conservation groups sue to challenge Trump’s 2026 rollback of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah.
A new ruling could let Utah lawmakers fast-track legislation to overturn tribal co-management of Bears Ears National Monument.
A decision from the Government Accountability Office puts Bears Ears National Monument’s management plan in the crosshairs.
Several mining claims have been staked on lands cut out of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
Compare maps of the 2026 cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Download your pdfs of the maps.
The Grand Canyon Trust is deeply disappointed by today’s presidential action attempting to gut Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments for a second time.
President Trump’s cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments threaten public lands and tribal stewardship.
On July 13, 2026, President Trump issued a new proclamation cutting Bears Ears National Monument by 91% and eliminating a historic cooperative agreement with the five tribes of the Bears Ears Commission.
This brochure outlines the native plants, plant communities, rare plants, and more that are found in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.
Learn about the 129 species of plants noted in the proclamation of Bears Ears National Monument.
For more than 600 generations, the Bears Ears cultural landscape has been a homeland to Native American tribes. Learn the history of Bears Ears.
Voters in Utah overwhelmingly support Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
Utah voters strongly support national monuments and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in particular a December 2024 poll shows.
A December 2024 poll of 500 voters across Utah found strong public support for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments
The U.S. District Court of Utah dismissed a lawsuit challenging Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
The state of Utah is suing to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase. Tribes and conservation groups are pushing back.
The Bureau of Land Management’s decision to deny motorized access to some federal lands in southern Utah was upheld by the Interior Board of Land Appeals.
The inter-governmental agreement for cooperative management of federal lands within Bears Ears National Monument.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden will take action on Friday, October 8 to restore protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Watch the White House signing ceremony with President Biden › On December 4, 2017, then-President Trump attempted to reduce the boundaries of Bears Ears by 85 percent and Grand […]
Read the proclamation restoring protections to Bears Ears National Monument.
View the restored boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument
See a map of the restored boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Salt Lake City, UT — Today, sovereign tribal nations and local and national groups, all plaintiffs in the federal court cases challenging the legality of the Trump administration’s reductions of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, released a joint statement. This statement comes in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s […]
Read NRDC’s amended and supplemental complaint challenging President Trump’s dismantaling of Bears Ears National Monument.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MOAB, UT — Utah’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to rush forward a plan for the illegally reduced Bears Ears National Monument that completely ignores the more than 1 million acres removed by an unlawful executive order and leaves most of the culturally and scientifically significant lands unprotected. In a final […]
We visited springs in Bears Ears National Monument and documented the condition of these important places. Read the report.