Utah's legal bid to kill Bears Ears, GSENM monuments lives on; BLM looks to open Utah land to motorheads; and Hoback water woes ...

Jonathan P. Thompson and Robert Frodeman

Jun 26, 2026

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Late light on Comb Ridge in Bears Ears National Monument. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

While the Trump administration 2.0 has so far refrained from trying to shrink or eliminate national monuments, its non-executive-branch proxies just keep on trying. This week the 10th Circuit federal appeals court issued a decision keeping alive Utah’…

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Robert Frodeman

Frodeman, a resident of Hoback, Wyoming, is editor (with Luther Propst and Evelyn Brister) of A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits (University of Utah Press, 2024).

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Utah's legal bid to kill Bears Ears, GSENM monuments lives on; BLM looks to open Utah land to motorheads; and Hoback water woes ...

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