Commentary: While courts deliberate the future of national monuments, development must wait

As autumn brings relief from summer’s wildfires, the firestorm that erupted late last year over the future of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments continues to burn.Right now, the Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments on the management of lands currently inside each monument, as well as those recently withdrawn from Grand Staircase-Escalante. While it is important that sportsmen and other citizens submit comments soon to request the protection of