Op-ed: How to forever resolve national monument controversies

Over the past two decades, presidents from both major American political parties have used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to set aside 11 million acres of land and 760 million acres of oceans as marine monuments. The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments were created under the Obama and Clinton administrations and encompass more than 3 million acres.When President Donald Trump took office, he charged his secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, to review the national monuments c