Bears Ears National Monument

National monument in San Juan County, Utah, United States

Bears Ears National Monument is a United States national monument located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, established by President Barack Obama by presidential proclamation on December 28, 2016. The monument protects 1,351,849 acres of public land surrounding the Bears Ears—a pair of buttes—and the Indian Creek corridor rock climbing area. The Native American names for the buttes have the same meaning in each of the languages represented in the region. The names are listed in the presidential proclamation as "Hoon’Naqvut, Shash Jáa [sic], Kwiyaghatʉ Nükavachi/Kwiyagatu Nukavachi, Ansh An Lashokdiwe"—all four mean "Bears Ears".

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Bears Ears and ancestral places of Southeast Utah and BENM

US & Canada Politics

Trump Slashes Size of Utah National Monuments

President Trump signed executive orders reducing the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by nearly 3 million acres, opening the land to mining and drilling.