More mining, less protection loom as feds release draft plans for Trump’s reduced southern Utah monuments

Most of the lands removed from southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument would be available to coal mining and other extractive uses under new draft management plans released Wednesday.The Bureau of Land Management’s “preferred” vision for these nearly 900,000 acres in Kane and Garfield counties imposes the fewest restrictions of the four alternatives studied under an environmental analysis, prompting renewed charges from green groups that President Dona