Friday tidbits: GSENM Intertribal coalition; mining order hits the ground; electric railway; reading room

🌵 Public Lands 🌲

A bee on a milkweed flower along the banks of Boulder Creek in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

President Barack Obama designated the Bears Ears National Monument in 2016 at the urging of a coalition of five tribal nations: The Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Ute Indian Tribe, the Ute Mountain…