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kerrlakeRoo
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Dec 04, 2017

Bears ear and Grand staircase are losing ground

Just saw on Fox News site that Trump has rolled back some of the lands that were converted in past years to National Park lands. Supposedly Utah folks were asking for these lands to be reopened, and...
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2oldman
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Dec 04, 2017
kerrlakeRoo wrote:
were they used often for recreational purposes?
I don't know. As for what this is about I guess you can choose your own news source and go from there.

NBC says this: "Bears Ears in particular, will be split into two separate sections where some of the 10,000 known religious ruins remain, and the rest will be opened up to use by the extraction industries."

I didn't see any news source claiming it's for recreational purposes.

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