ACTION ALERT
Tell the Administration
HANDS OFF OUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS!
Vermillion Cliffs by Tim Peterson flown by EcoFlight
URGENT: President Trump gutted protections for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments – AGAIN!
On July 13, 2026, President Trump announced he reduced the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by a combined three million acres, which virtually eliminates them.
Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante are a part of a larger cultural landscape — an interconnected Indigenous homeland that has been stewarded by Native Americans since time immemorial. Tribal Nations led the effort to protect Bears Ears, while Tribal Nations, local communities, scientists, businesses, and others helped support lasting protections for both monuments.
Stripping protections for these national monuments puts Tribal cultural resources, habitats, animals, clean water, outdoor recreation access, and local economies and communities at immediate risk.
For Bears Ears, this action also undermines years of collaborative work between the Tribal Nations of the Bears Ears Commission and federal land managers to implement one of the nation’s most innovative models of collaborative management.
Take action today by using our multi-step tool to sign the petition to President Trump letting him know you oppose shrinking these national monuments and to send an email to your members of Congress asking them to publicly oppose these actions.
TEXT OF LETTER:
National parks and monuments such as Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante are among the country’s most precious places. Tribal Nations, alongside local communities worked to protect these national monuments in order to preserve thousands of cultural sites and areas sacred to Indigenous peoples, outdoor recreational opportunities, sensitive wildlife habitat, local watersheds, and vulnerable ecological resources. These places should remain protected.
I join the majority of voters who support the protection of public lands, including those who live in the communities that surround these beloved national monuments. Eighty-nine percent of Westerners from all political identities oppose any changes to national monument protections. In Utah, voters - Republicans and Democrats – overwhelmingly support Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, with over 70 percent in favor of keeping them as national monuments.
Shrinking national monument boundaries threatens critical watersheds, cultural heritage sites, wildlife habitat, and outdoor recreation opportunities. Each of these monuments was explicitly supported by Tribal Nations, local communities and residents, businesses, scientists, adjacent landowners, and elected officials representing the areas.
Allowing mining, drilling, and other destructive development will irrevocably decimate these irreplaceable landscapes. Once they are destroyed by industrial development or sold off, they will be lost forever.
Please keep America beautiful by upholding the protection of our most treasured public lands.
Hands Off Our National Monuments!
