President Joe Biden on Friday will restore the original boundaries and slightly expand two national monuments in Utah, as well as protections for one off the coast of Massachusetts, the White House said Thursday night.
Biden will reverse President Donald Trump’s 2017 decision to shrink Bears Ears National Monument by nearly 85% and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by almost half. Both are overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.
He is also reversing Trump’s decision to allow commercial fishing in the protected waters of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, a national marine monument that President Barack Obama designated in ...
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