Trump's DOJ takes aim at the Antiquities Act

Also: Cutting through the public land sell-off misinformation

Boulder in Bears Ears National Monument. Jonathan P. Thompson photo

🌵 Public Lands 🌲

Somewhat lost among the hubbub over Republicans’ efforts to sell off and otherwise deface public lands was a legal opinion by the Trump administration’s Justice Department published on May 27. In it, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lanora C. Pettit argues that a presi…