Opinion: With Bears Ears National Monument restored, I feel hope for Indian Country Elizabeth Perez is an enrolled tribal member of the North Fork Rancheria Mono Indians.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 7, 2021 – Tomorrow, October 8, President Biden will take action to restore protections to three national monuments that had been dismantled by the previous administration. Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings dated to … BLM. More than three years after the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah was drastically shrunk in size, tribal leaders and activists are hopeful that Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland would soon recommend its restoration. Webcast: Beyond Bears Ears. managed by the Forest Service; it is the ifth to. “My bloodline and culture comes from Bears Ears, my clan migrated through that area.
Bridger Jack Mesa and the Six Shooter peaks are located in the northern, Indian Creek unit of Bears Ears National Monument. the authority to designate national monuments on federal land to protect objects of historic. Bears Ears National Monument, in Utah, is one of three monuments due to get their federal protections back after they were stripped during the … Bears Ears National Monument is the first national monument designated at the request of Tribal Nations.
Biden returned 2 million acres to the national monuments in October, which former President Donald Trump had previously removed. DENVER—President Biden is expected to issue a proclamation tomorrow confirming the original boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, according to Brian Maffly of the Salt Lake Tribune. As evidenced by Edgar Lee Hewett’s recommendation way back in 1904, Bears Ears is exactly the kind of place the Antiquities Act was created to protect. be managed jointly by the Forest Service and. Bears Ears was one of three national monuments cut by former President Donald Trump that were restored by Biden, along with the 1.87 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument off … When Secretary Zinke conducted a public review in 2017, more than 2 million Americans submitted comments with 98% in support of protections. Bears Ears National Monument. (Crystal Carr Haaland is visiting the Utah monument on her first trip as the new interior secretary this week. President Donald Trump reduced the acreage of Bears Ears National Monument by 85% in 2017, citing local opposition. Despite urging from state officials, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (second from left) has recommended that President Joe Biden restore the boundaries of the Bear Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. This work is guided by Wy-Kan-Ush-Mi Wa-Kish-Wit (Spirit of the Salmon), the Tribes’ holistic salmon restoration plan. … The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase … Hopi leaders attend Biden restoration of Bears Ears.
The story written here during President Trump’s term was one of industry access and influence — for the uranium-mining company that lobbied the administration to reduce the boundaries, and for the politicians who disrespected the Native nationsthat sought to see the area set aside for preservation.
Monument is the . In fact, national monument status does protect critical lands by focusing on restoration rather than leasing to those that drill, cut and otherwise destroy. The power of preserving this outstanding landscape is in your hands.
Navajo sandstone and juniper snag, Escalante Wilderness, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
What happened to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante after Trump’s proclamation? President Joe Biden on Friday restored two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and other development hundreds of thousands of acres of rugged lands sacred to Native Americans and home to ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs. In April, Ms. Haaland visited Bears Ears and Grand Staircase, where she hiked and met with Republican leaders including Mr. Cox, as well as tribal leaders who urged restoration of the monument. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports. Bears Ears does even more by honoring the request of tribes to protect lands that are sacred to them. On Friday, President Biden also signed a proclamation recognizing Oct. 11, 2021 as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Bears Ears was the first site to receive the designation at the specific request of tribes. Reflections on the Bears Ears Restoration. And President Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears National Monument gives Tribes a critical and long-overdue voice in … In 2017, President Trump attempted to slash the boundaries of the Utah … The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, which pushed for its restoration, has said the monument’s twin buttes are considered a place of worship for many tribes.
Updated 2:00 PM ET, Thu April 8, 2021. Tribal leaders are applauding President Joe Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah. Bears Ears, the twin rock formations which form part of Bears Ears National Monument in the Four Corners region in Utah, U.S. May 16, 2017. An Oct. 7 statement from the White House said Biden will restore the Bears Ears National Monument boundaries as they were established in 2016, while also retaining the protections established for an additional 11,200 acres that were added at the same time that BENM was reduced in 2017. By a decree signed Friday, October 8, the US President restored the size of the Bears Ears (Utah) National Monument, designated as such by Barack Obama in December 2016 and cut 85% of its area a year later by Donald Trump. Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah was the first national monument established at a federally recognized tribe’s request.