Zinke Recommends Trump Scale Back Bears Ears National Monument

"Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended President Trump 'revise the existing boundaries' of the Bears Ears National Historic Monument and call on Congress to dictate the terms of how parts of the area should be managed.

Native American and environmental groups immediately threatened to sue should Trump follow the recommendation.

In an interim report Zinke gave to the White House on Saturday, he proposed Trump ask Congress to give tribal officials authority to co-manage 'designated cultural resources' in the area and 'make more appropriate conservation designations' within an area that President Barack Obama formally protected in southeastern Utah late last year."
 
Darryl Fears and Juliet Eilperin report for the Washington Post June 12, 2017.

SEE ALSO:

"Zinke Recommends Diminishing Size Of Bears Ears But Says Area ‘Merits Some Degree Of Protection’" (Salt Lake Tribune)

June 10, 2017, Memorandum to the President (Interior Department)

"Interior Secretary Recommends Shrinking Borders of Bears Ears Monument" (New York Times)

"Trump Urged To Cut Bears Ears Monument To 'Smallest Area' Possible" (Guardian)

"Trump Administration Wants To Shrink Bears Ears National Monument" (NPR)

"Monuments Under Review By Interior Department" (AP)

"Monument Review Includes Oceans, Tribal Lands And Sequoias" (AP)