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San Juan County paid nearly $500K to Louisiana law firm to lobby for Bears Ears reductions

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Bruce Adams, right, chairman of the San Juan County Commission, has his hat signed by President Donald Trump at the Utah Capitol on Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, after Trump's signing of two presidential proclamations to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. The county has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees trying to achieve such a result.