"SALT LAKE CITY — Backed by dramatic mountain peaks, Elizabeth Warren stopped in Utah on Wednesday to discuss her public-lands plan, including a promise to restore broader protections for two of the state’s high-profile national monuments if elected president. It’s a move that would not endear her to the state’s GOP establishment but could appeal to voters across the West angered by President Donald Trump’s decision to shrink the monuments.
Warren’s plan puts her among the few Democratic candidates so far talking about public lands, a hot topic in the region. Warren, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, said shrinking the two expansive Southwestern monuments opens up more land to potentially damaging extraction projects.
“These national forests are our national treasure for everyone in this country, not here simply to be exploited by mining companies and drilling companies,” she said."
Lindsay Whitehurst reports for the Associated Press April 17, 2019.
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