Scientists decry Trump’s move to strip fossil treasures from Utah’s Grand Staircase monument

Kaiparowits Plateau holds a well-preserved, 25 million-year record of prehistoric animals living during the key Late Cretaceous period — along with most of Utah’s untapped coal reserves.

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