Joe Biden restores sacred Bears Ears
“This may be the easiest thing I've ever done so far as President.”
That’s what President Joe Biden said Friday afternoon, speaking from outside the White House, to celebrate the presidential action that will expand two national monuments in Utah, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Democratic lawmakers, tribal leaders and environmentalists attended the White House ceremony.
Biden's action reversed a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and other development hundreds of thousands of acres of rugged lands sacred to Indigenous peoples and home to ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs.
The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in southern Utah encompass more than 3.2 million acres — an area nearly the size of Connecticut — and were created by Democratic administrations under a century-old law that allows presidents to protect sites considered historic, geographically or culturally important.
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