NPR Utah. Legal researchers say that the new management plans for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante do not properly protect the resources as required by federal law.
Yale Environment 360. "With their deep ties to the land and reliance on fishing, hunting, and gathering, indigenous tribes are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Now, native communities across North America are stepping up to adopt climate action plans to protect their way of life."
Indian Country Today. Trump Administration seeks to revive uranium mining near Bears Ears.
Science Friday. "It’s important to recognize that our communities have been adapting to climate for a long time—that we have sciences and technologies that reflect that, and that it’s so important that we value them, and continue learning about them and passing them down to this next generation.”
Outside Magazine. Tribes as well as environmental groups condemn the land management plans released by the administration for the illegally reduced Bears Ears monument "units."
Indian Country Today. "Trump administration opens southern Utah national monument lands to development including grazing, mining, and oil and gas development."
Washington Post. "The Interior Department finalized plans Thursday that will expand drilling, mining and grazing in areas of southern Utah that had once been protected" by the original Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalate national monuments.
Reuters. Investors representing $112 billion in assets urge extraction companies to "not take advantage of Trump administration rollback of environmental regulations" and public land protections.
Salt Lake Tribune. A conservative institute with funding from the Koch brothers was a primary force behind the reduction of the Bears Ears monument and dilution of tribal rights.
Tazbah Rose Chaves (Bishop Paiute Tribe from the Nüümü, Diné and San Carlos Apache tribes) tells the story of seven Indigenous women who hiked the Nüümü Poyo—the People’s Trail— to reclaim their ancestral trade routes through healing and connection to the land.