Tracy Stone-Manning: The administration’s relentless assault on America’s public lands

This week marks the two year anniversary of the Trump administration’s decision to decimate two national monuments located in Utah.With the stroke of a pen, the president removed protections on 85% of the Bears Ears National Monument and 50% of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The president’s action was the single largest reduction of protected public lands in the history of the United States.It put more than 2 million acres of land at risk for oil, gas and uranium de