SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah congresswoman is taking on the century-old law that created national monuments, as a pair of monuments in the state are expected to return to the spotlight once President ...

Butler Wash Panel, a rock wall with petroglyphs by ancient Native people in Bears Ears National Monument. The fate of Utah’s national monuments is currently in flux. President-elect Donald Trump is ...

The survey also confirms, yet again, that Utah voters overwhelmingly support national monuments in general, and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in particular. This support ...

This lodge sits inside a national monument and between two national parks. Who wouldn’t want to rent one of its cabins, ...

Less than a year later, Trump redrew the 1.3 million-acre monument's boundaries, removing about 85% of its area — and cut out about half the area of Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Chuckwalla is the "capstone" of the Biden administration's Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor. Monuments designations and management plans have sparked long-standing controversies in Utah. With less ...

Two federal agencies recently approved the resource management plan for Bears Ears National Monument, even as one freshman lawmaker from Utah wants to strip presidential authority to create monuments.

Do we have a monument? Cool, great. Do we not? Cool, whatever. I don’t care how it goes,” he continued. “But turning people’s lives into a political play is not right.” Shrinking Utah ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of the Trump administration’s push to expand U.S. energy production, federal officials will review ...

A December 2024 poll of 500 voters across Utah by public opinion research firm New Bridge Strategy found strong public support for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, and for ...

A map of the current Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument where a poll shows most Utahns want to continue to be protected, Escalante, Utah, date not specified. Image courtesy of Grand Canyon Trust ...

The survey found that 71% of Utah voters support Bears Ears National Monument and 74% support Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Support for both monuments was highest among Democrats ...