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Biden Admin Restores Protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments

HeadlineOct 08, 2021

The Biden administration is restoring federal protections for three national monuments that were drastically rolled back by Trump to allow for commercial exploitation and extraction. The monuments are Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts off the coast of New England. Over 3.2 million acres will come back under federal protection in Utah alone.

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