The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments were 3+ million acres of national monument land sacred to and created at the request of Native American tribes. There were petroglyphs, cliff dwellings and other anthropological and cultural reasons (aside from the geological reasons) for keeping the area protected.
Trump deliberately delisted them from monument status so that the federal protections could be dropped and the area could be utilized for mining. It was "let me take this sacred Native American land and strip it of national monument status so that my corporate lobbyists can exploit the area". This came during a time where Utah was already attempting to "give land back to Utahns" in order to exploit federal land for private use under the guise of handing it over to the "people" of Utah. The whole thing was grossly transparent and pathetic. You can dress it up in a way that makes Trump look like less of a kowtower to corporate interests if it makes you feel better, but it doesn't change the fact that Biden righted a wrong (in this instance).
I get it, this is a hunting forum and we will have our majority share of Trump worshippers, but to say that deslisting that land wasn't cultural / spiritual theft is disingenuous at best. I wasn't trying to derail the thread, I was simply pointing out an occasion where presidential intervention was a good thing. I should've known anything violating the "Trump good, Biden bad" attitude would be met with hostility. Not everything is black and white.
To the "Let's go Brandon" crowd. Grow up. The idea of grown men running around parroting some adolescent punch line and feeling cool about it is just weird. This is coming from someone that can't stand Joe Biden.
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