The fight over GSENM and Bears Ears will go on

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/07/13/president-trump-shrinks-bears-ears/

(with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse standing behind the feared leader of the Oompa-Loompas)

https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/trump-shrinks-bears-ears-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monuments-again

(includes short video from Jackie Grant, Executive Director for Grand Staircase Escalante Partners and a board member for the Utah Native Plant Society; note that this action was expected)

Other links of interest:

https://suwa.org/trump-illegally-decimates-bears-ears-and-grand-staircase-escalante/

https://suwa.org/suwa-statement-on-trumps-illegal-reductions-of-grand-staircase-escalante-bears-ears-national-monuments-7-13-26/

https://suwa.org/suwa-statement-on-tenth-circuit-decision-over-long-running-attack-on-national-monuments-6-23-26/

https://nativenewsonline.net/environment/timeline-grand-staircase-escalante-and-the-fight-over-utahs-national-monuments/

(no contact was made with Tribal Nations re: Bears Ears)

https://earthjustice.org/press/2026/report-trump-administration-to-illegally-attack-bears-ears-and-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monuments

There already was significant litigation in the works.  There is a good chance this will remain tied up in the courts for the duration of the current presidency.

A tremendous amount of misinformation has been put out by the White House and Utah congressional  representatives ("we the people" have not been fairly represented).  The land was never stolen from the people of Utah and it remains in federal ownership.  Hunting and cattle grazing were already being allowed.

Bears Ears (April 2017)