News breaks that President Trump intends to shrink protected areas

Written By Lucy Livesay

Reports from inside the Interior Department indicate that the administration is expected to remove protections from six national monuments: Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon and Ironwood Forest in Arizona, Chuckwalla in California, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico, and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah.

Lucy Livesay
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