After the BLM announced a plan to build reservoirs and distribute cattle on Bears Ears National Monument, conservation groups petitioned a judge to block the plan — and succeeded.

President-elect Trump's upcoming return to the White House is generating grave concerns that the National Park Service will be facing fiscal reductions and policy revisions that could significantly alter both the way it does business as well as how it manages to conserve the park system.

Utah's attorney general, indicating he's willing to eventually approach the U.S. Supreme Court over President Biden's boundary revisions to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, has appealed a lower court's ruling against the state.

A bid by Utah officials to see the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments shrunk should be dismissed because they have not demonstrated a cause of action for the court to consider nor has the federal government waived its sovereign immunity to allow a lawsuit against it, according to a motion filed by the federal government.