President Joe Biden starts process to restore Utah’s national monuments

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments may soon be enlarged.Acting on a pledge he made as a candidate, President Joe Biden on Wednesday initiated a first step toward restoring the boundaries of the two formerly large Utah national monuments that Donald Trump had reduced by 2 million acres as a political favor to Utah politicians.Within the first few hours of taking the oath of office, the White House said the new president signed an executive order calling for, among other m