The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday posted draft management plans for Utah’s two large national monuments that underwent controversial reductions by President Donald Trump after pleas from state and county officials to shrink or erase monuments designated by his Democratic predecessors.
The agency also posted thousands of pages of analysis for the plans that outline new management programs for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, as well as the 900,000 acres Trump stripped from Staircase.
“It’s been nearly 20 years since the public has had the unique opportunity to help shape the future of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument — the BLM’s first ever national monument,” the BLM’s Utah director, Ed Roberson, said in a news release.