Commentary: What lawmakers have done to our public lands is monstrous

In October of last year, a nearly complete fossil of a Teratophoneus, a cousin of the well-known Tyrannosaurus rex, was airlifted out of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument right here in southern Utah. Treasure troves of fossils and numerous new species have been unearthed in this crown jewel of our public lands that advance our understanding of time historic.Land producing such discoveries surely merits our protection, but as you read this, those protections are being stripped away by t