What to know about Trump’s order to reduce the size of 2 national monuments in Utah0

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• July 14, 2026

SALT LAKE CITY — Reviewing actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The Republican’s actions undo proclamations by his predecessors that deemed sites worthy of preservation under the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that gives