Voters in Utah overwhelmingly support Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
Resource Issue: Bears Ears
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 by public opinion research firm New Bridge Strategy found strong public support for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, and for national monuments generally. In addition, nearly nine in 10 Utah voters say it is very important for tribes to have a strong role in […]
On Friday, August 11, 2023 the U.S. District Court of Utah dismissed lawsuits challenging President Biden’s designation of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. President Biden reinstated both monuments’ boundaries in 2021 after President Trump shrank them in 2017. Read the judge’s order › Download the PDF ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SALT LAKE CITY, UT — Conservation groups filed a motion to intervene in two lawsuits challenging President Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments today. The suits, led by the state of Utah, also attack the Antiquities Act itself as unlawful. Nearly five years ago, former President Trump controversially […]
The Interior Board of Land Appeals upheld a Bureau of Land Management decision denying a right-of-way for an ATV route in Utah’s San Juan County near Bears Ears National Monument. Read the full decision › Download the PDF ›
The inter-governmental cooperative agreement signed on June 18, 2022, directs the cooperative management of Bears Ears National Monument by the Bears Ears Commission, which consists of one elected officer each from the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni, the […]
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 […]
On October 8, 2021, President Biden restored full protections to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah. Download your copy ›
On October 8, 2021, President Biden signed a proclamation restoring Bears Ears National Monument to the boundaries established by President Obama on December 28, 2016 and retaining protections for an additional 11,200 acres added by President Trump in 2017, for a total protected area of 1.36 million acres. Download your PDF copy ›
On October 8, 2021, President Biden signed this proclamation, confirming, restoring, and supplementing the boundaries and protections provided by President Obama in 2016. The proclamation recognizes that the greater Bears Ears landscape has supported Indigenous people of the Southwest since time immemorial and continues to be sacred land to the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute […]
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 […]
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 › Download a PDF of the report ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON D.C. — Last night, President Trump announced that he would not implement trade measures to artificially boost the domestic uranium market. The decision deals a blow to two uranium companies — Energy Fuels Resources and Ur Energy — that filed a petition for uranium quotas in 2018 in an attempt to […]
This map, showing new mining claims within the original boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, was produced using data from the BLM LR2000 Land & Mineral Systems Reports, downloaded in July 2018. Download your PDF copy ›
The Bears Ears National Monument proclamation names 76 wildlife species. Read more about the species in this booklet. Download the booklet ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SALT LAKE CITY, UT — The Grand Canyon Trust and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance are challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recent decision authorizing Energy Fuels Resources (USA) Inc. to expand the Daneros uranium mine, located about three miles from the original boundary of Bears Ears National Monument. The appeal […]
On August 10, 2018, the Grand Canyon Trust and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance filed a statement of reasons challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to expand the Daneros uranium mine near Bears Ears National Monument. Download the document now ›
This map, showing active mining claims around Bears Ears National Monument, was produced using data from the BLM LR2000 Land & Mineral Systems Reports, downloaded on July 27, 2018. Download your PDF copy ›
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FLAGSTAFF, AZ — Monday’s report in the Washington Post further proves that the Trump administration’s national monument review has been a predetermined exercise from the very beginning, designed to prioritize extractive uses of protected public lands and waters. It is clear that the Department of the Interior repeatedly ignored science, public opinion, local […]
This map, showing active mining claims around Bears Ears National Monument, was produced using data from the BLM LR2000 Land & Mineral Systems Reports, downloaded in February 2018. Download your PDF copy ›
Read the comments submitted by the Grand Canyon Trust and partners regarding the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Enefit American Oil Utility Corridor Project. Download the full comments ›
This map, showing new mining claims within the original boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, was produced using data from the BLM LR2000 Land & Mineral Systems Reports, downloaded in February 2018. Download your PDF copy ›
This map shows the changes to Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments. Download your PDF copy ›
In 2018, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) accepted public comments as part of the scoping process to create monument management plans for the reduced Indian Creek and Shash Jaa’ units of Bears Ears National Monument.Download the scoping comments submitted by the Grand Canyon Trust and partners ›
View a map of the Daneros uranium mine haul route through Bears Ears National Monument. Download your copy ›
Download the map showing changes to Bears Ears National Monument, including the new boundaries and excluded areas. Download your copy ›
Explore Trump’s changes to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments Use this interactive map to discover locations within Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. View full-screen map ›