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    Antiquities Act Under Fire From White House

    President Trump has tasked Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke with reassessing two dozen national monuments, beginning with Bears Ears in Utah.
    May 01, 2017 3 minutes
    President Trump signs an executive order to review the Antiquities Act at the U.S. Department of the Interior on April 26, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

    Sally Jewell was former President Barack Obama’s interior secretary when she presided over a listening session last summer in the postcard-pretty town of Bluff, Utah.

    Thermometers topped 100 degrees that day in southeastern Utah’s red rock country. Yet, hundreds jammed the tiny Bluff Community Center, and they listened over loudspeakers in the dusty, dirt parking lot, to the debate over the future of nearby land that everyone seems to cherish.

    “Madam Secretary,” one monument opponent said, “can you please answer to us: What gives you the constitutional right to

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