<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1655759994034,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017f-e2f4-de00-a7ff-e7fff8030000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1655759994034,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017f-e2f4-de00-a7ff-e7fff8030000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
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As part of a cooperative agreement signed on Saturday with the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service, the tribes will work alongside the federal government to co-administer Bears Ears National Monument in San Juan County.
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“Today, instead of being removed from a landscape to make way for a public park, we are being invited back to our ancestral homelands to help repair them and plan for a resilient future,” said Carleton Bowekaty, co-chairman of the Bears Ears Commission, in a statement.
The Hopi Tribe, the Navajo Nation, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni all signed on to the agreement and will each have one elected officer serve on the Bears Ears Commission.
Tribes will also work with the federal government to decide how the monument’s land will be used.
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Bears Ears National Monument was first established under the Obama administration. The Trump administration reduced the size of the national monument by 1.1 million acres, but it was restored by President Joe Biden in 2021. In fact, Biden expanded the national monument so that it would cover 1.36 million acres, slightly larger than Obama’s original establishment.
