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Designated on the same day as Bears Ears, Nevada’s 300,000-acre Gold Butte National Monument has also been proposed for unspecified reductions. While signs have gone up at Gold Butte, monument ...

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

Gold Butte, where he set aside 300,000 acres of Nevada desert, and Bears Ears, where he protected 1.35m acres surrounding twin buttes that jut upwards from the landscape like ears from a bear’s ...

As a Diné man from Monument Valley, Bears Ears means a lot to me. I can see the Bears Ears Buttes on the northern horizon, and their presence reminds me of the teachings I live by.

Jonah Yellowman, a 66-year-old Navajo spiritual leader, gathers sage on Cedar Mesa not far from the base of the Bears Ears buttes in southeastern Utah. He uses the plant in weekly ceremonies.

Bears Ears in Utah is on land considered sacred to Native Americans. But some local residents say the 1.35-million-acre national monument is being pushed by extreme out-of-state environmentalists.

I wanted to see this part of Bears Ears for myself, before it is opened for uranium and oil and gas development. The day before we put in at Sand Island with our camping gear, food supplies and ...

Bears Ears, first and foremost, is indigenous land. It is a place essential to the physical, spiritual and cultural identity of the Hopi, Zuni, Ute and Navajo Nations.

The bogus handouts are filled with false information related to an actual pending proposal to establish a 1.9-million-acre national monument around the Bears Ears twin buttes in southeast Utah.

The terracotta mesas and umber buttes reveal that this is an exceptional place. Yet not one sign from the Bureau of Land Management or the U.S. Forest Service, the two federal agencies that ...