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    Trump shrinks two national monuments in Utah, assailing rule by 'distant bureaucrats'

    by Keith Schneider, Los Angeles Times Dec 05, 2017 4 minutes

    SALT LAKE CITY _President Donald Trump formally reconfigured two big national monuments in southern Utah on Monday, shrinking them by more than 2 million acres - a public lands declaration unlike any ever made by a U.S. chief executive.

    "You know how best to take care of your land," the president said to a large audience at the state Capitol. "You know best how to conserve this land for generations."

    Calling the designation of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments an abuse of federal authority and the work of "distant bureaucrats," the president added: "I've come to Utah to reverse federal overreach and restore the rights to this land to your citizens."

    The proclamations Trump signed reduce the 1.9 million-acre

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