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My Din茅 friend who lives near Bears Ears sent me a photo of two empty holes in the ground that three weeks ago held a sign proudly announcing one of the entrances to Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah. It included seals from the five tribes of the Hopi, Navajo Nation, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, Ute Mountain Ute and Zuni. This is sacred landscape to these tribes who were instrumental in the creation and management of this national monument for all Americans.

It is a heartbreaking death knell for this extraordinary monument, dramatic canyons and over 100,000 cultural sites, which the tribes and the general public all strongly supported. But President Donald Trump cavalierly eviscerated it on July 13 by shrinking this 1.36 million-acre monument by 91% to two tiny, isolated parcels and outlier sites of 121,096 acres.

Just west, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument suffered the same fate, shrunk by nearly 90%, from 1.69 million acres to 181,541 acres, also in several tiny, disconnected tracts.

The lands removed from the monuments are now open to oil and gas drilling and coal and uranium mining, which many of us understand was the main intention from this pro-industry, profits-first administration. However, Trump didn鈥檛 say that, instead blathering about how monument status restricts essentially all human activities: 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 do anything. You can鈥檛 go hunting. You can鈥檛 go fishing. You can鈥檛 do anything. You can virtually not even walk on it.鈥�

That鈥檚 simply not true. I have personally hiked hundreds of miles and led students and tour groups in these monuments, before and after designation. Not only are all these activities permitted, but motorized recreation, livestock grazing and other commercial activities are allowed, and preexisting drilling leases and mining claims are grandfathered in.

In reality, when industry leases more of these lands for drilling or establishes mining claims, we will see restricted public access.

In direct contradiction of statements from Utah politicians about the wishes of their citizens, 86% of Utah voters 鈥渂elieve existing national monument designations for some public lands protected over the last decade should be kept in place,鈥� according to the 2026 State of the Rockies Conservation in the West poll. Other surveys agree.

This action is an insult to Americans and to the principle of representative, democratic governance, and a slap in the face to the many tribes who support these monuments. Trump also disbanded the Bears Ears Commission, representatives of the five tribes who worked with federal agencies to manage the monument. And in a symbolic nose-thumbing, the sacred namesake bears ears buttes, known for their striking appearance from vast distance as the actual ears of a bear, are not included in the shriveled boundaries.

Trump shrunk both these monuments during his first term in 2017, seemingly as a vindictive attack on the legacies of his political adversaries. President Joe Biden restored the monuments during his presidency. So this is not the first time we鈥檝e been through this, and legal scholars have already weighed in with their opinions. All except those working for Trump have determined the Antiquities Act gives presidents authority to establish national monuments on federal lands, but not power to shrink or rescind a previously designated monument.

There will be legal challenges, partisan punditry, protests and more. This ain鈥檛 over. But we also need everyone out there who cares about it to support the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante Inter-Tribal Coalitions, and the conservation organizations fighting this fight. Get out and enjoy your public lands, write letters to your elected officials, and vote for the people who share your values. Help us replace those signs.

Ernie Atencio is an anthropologist, writer and former Southwest regional director for National Parks Conservation Association.