Jonathan Thompson: Utah’s latest attack on the Antiquities Act

The bid to diminish national monuments threatens landscape preservation.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Arch Canyon within Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.

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