Zinke to tour Bears Ears amid Trump monuments review

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is scheduled to tour the controversial Bears Ears National Monument on Monday, local officials in Utah told the Deseret News. Zinke will tour part of the 1.35-million acre Bears Ears monument on horseback, a county commissioner told the paper after meeting with Zinke on Tuesday. Zinke will also visit the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument next week. The two monuments are the bookends for a Trump administration review of federal monument designations under the Antiquities Act...more