Trump trims Utah Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments by nearly 3 million acres
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Trump issued orders cutting protections on almost 3 million acres of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, shrinking both boundaries (Bears Ears to about 121,000 acres and Grand Staircase-Escalante by roughly 1.7 million) and undoing Biden-era restorations. The move has sparked ongoing legal challenges over presidential authority to withdraw protections, with debates over potential energy development and mining in the areas.
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