Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, wrote a memorandum to President Trump on the review of Bears Ears National Monument. 

Click below to read Defenders comments to the menorandum.

https://www.defenders.org/sites/default/files/publications/bears_ears_comment_5_23.pdf

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