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Researchers found remains of crocodile-like animals called phytosaurs in an area that President Trump cut off from the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. "Based on our small, initial excavation, we believe that this 63-meter site may be the densest area of Triassic period fossils in the nation, maybe the world," one researcher said.
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Researchers discover fossils in area Trump removed from Bears Ears monument

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President Trump on Dec. 4 signed a proclamation cutting Bears Ears National Monument by more than 1.1 million acres, or 85 percent, and creating two smaller monuments instead. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Bears Ears gets no mining applications

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President Trump holds up a signed proclamation to shrink the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. The proclamation cuts Bears Ears by more than 1.1 million acres, or 85 percent, and creates two smaller monuments instead. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Energy and Environment

Trump’s Utah monuments rollback takes effect, allows new mining, drilling claims

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President Trump signed an executive order April 26 directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands, including Bears Ears National Monument, as he singled out
Energy and Environment

Democrats to pressure Ryan Zinke to ban mining, drilling in Bears Ears

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Republican Rep. John Curtis of Utah is a leader of the Conservative Climate Caucus.
Energy and Environment

Parties fight over uranium mining in Trump’s smaller Utah monuments

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A coalition of five Native American tribes, and environmental groups, have filed three lawsuits challenging President Trump's shrinking of Bears Ears. (Photo via Wikipedia)
Energy and Environment

Trump administration wants friendlier court to hear challenge to Bears Ears monument rollback

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Seesawing designations and confusion over the exact areas being set aside puts management of these monuments into a state of political limbo. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
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How to refocus the Antiquities Act

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Energy and Environment

Rob Bishop says Patagonia owner ‘living in a bubble’ by refusing to testify on monument rollbacks

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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, urges long-term Children's Health Insurance Program funding be extended in next spending bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

One of Utah’s biggest papers says Orrin Hatch should ‘call it a career’

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Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, is chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)
Energy and Environment

Rob Bishop: Congress must cement Trump’s public lands agenda into law

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