Trump administration plan for Bears Ears slammed as 'recklessly' weakening protections

The Bureau of Land Management posted to the federal register the management plan for the Utah monument, which was created by former Democratic President Barack Obama in 2016 to protect Native American cultural and archaeological sites but reduced in size by 85% by Republican President Donald Trump in 2017 to open up the land to resource extraction, grazing, logging and vehicle use.While U.S. national parks can be created only by an act of Congress, national monuments can be designated unilateral