Former DOI chief: Lawsuit to overturn Trump's NMon cuts will prevail

Bears Ears National Monument — the 1.3 million-acre version President Barack Obama designated and American Indian tribes embraced — will return.

So predicted former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Thursday, declaring that Bears Ears supporters will prevail in their legal battle to restore the southern Utah monument, set aside in 2016 by her then-boss using his presidential powers under the Antiquities Act.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2019/03/22/tribes-will-win-their/

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