SUWA (Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance) just sent out letters:
Grand Staircase was shrunk by 48 percent, with just 1 million acres remaining. And in a slap in the face to the five tribes who advocated for it, Bears Ears was decimated, its 1.35 million acres reduced by 83 percent to just 228,700 acres.
Trump just announced this atrocity in his speech in Salt Lake City. Even though our representatives and Senators who flanked him are all in favor of selling this land to oil, coal and other mining industries, not only are the environmentalists of Utah opposed, but also the very conservative hunters and fishermen of Utah. Most of the surrounding communities, which are almost solely based on tourism to this uniquely beautiful landscape will also suffer. Even the people who come out here on ATV and Razors prefer not to have to drive around oil wells.
Also in the SUWA letter:
And it was sadly unsurprising when Zinke’s initial findings were leaked to reveal that he had ignored the overwhelming consensus of more than 2.8 million public comments that made it clear that the American people wanted their monuments left alone, instead recommending the types of major cuts that we have now seen.
Please join me in supporting SUWA, who has been fighting on behalf of these precious lands for decades and will now be taking this to court.