Western members of Congress to Trump: Erase Utah’s Bears Ears, 8 other monuments

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(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Bears Ears mountain as seen from the Comb Ridge near Bluff, Utah, Thursday, December 29, 2016.

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