Over 1000 people turned out around the state yesterday to protest Trump's reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments.  When UT Gov Cox and Senator Mike Lee say locals don't support the monuments, think of these images.

CALLING ALL UTAHNS!  Are you mad about Bears Ears and Grand Staircase? Tell your reps and governor.  Monday evening. See you there.

Both Congress and the Supreme Court have weighed in on multiple occasions to uphold the President's ability to designate landscape-scale national monuments, contradicting claims that Bears Ears and Grand Staircase are "too big" https://westwise.substack.com/p/utahs-case-against-bears-ears-and

President Trump signed proclamations today shrinking Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments by about 90 percent each. Our statement here: https://westernpriorities.org/2026/07/trump-signs-orders-attacking-utah-monuments-based-on-false-information/

President Trump is planning a secret attack on Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments today at 4:30p ET. The signing is closed to the press. https://westernpriorities.org/2026/07/trump-plans-secretive-attack-on-utah-national-monuments-underscoring-unpopularity/

News outlets in Utah report that President Trump plans to sign an order Monday shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante Our statement:  https://westernpriorities.org/2026/07/trump-plan-to-shrink-bears-ears-and-grand-staircase-escalante-is-illegal-and-defies-public-support/

Members of the Western Governors Association were met with these images protected onto a rock wall in Big Cottonwood Canyon on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 in Salt Lake City

The House Natural Resources Democrats just released a bombshell report on Freedom250.  Hatch Act violations, wire fraud, obstruction, corruption... Freedom250 has it all.  Read on:  https://democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/doc/freedom250_oversight_report2.pdf

President Trump and Doug Burgum today attended the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. Our statement:  https://westernpriorities.org/2026/07/trump-delivers-rambling-remarks-at-theodore-roosevelt-presidential-library-opening-in-north-dakota/

Nothing like celebrating a conservation icon while dismantling everything he did. It's giving Gilded Age. Here's how Trump and Burgum are treating Roosevelt's legacy: https://westwise.substack.com/p/teddy-roosevelt-ended-the-gilded

Trump has nominated Michael Chamberlain, a hyperpartisan political operative, to lead the Office of Government Ethics. Our statement here: https://westernpriorities.org/2026/06/trump-nominates-hyperpartisan-political-operative-to-top-government-ethics-job/

These were hung on the Interior department today.  Trump is using government resources to promote himself.  If it walks like a Hatch Act violation and talks like a Hatch Act violation....

The Interior department is beginning the process of updating its policies regarding designated wilderness, wilderness study areas, and lands with wilderness characteristics. Our statement:  https://westernpriorities.org/2026/06/interior-lays-the-groundwork-for-attacks-on-wilderness-and-wildlands/

Clearly Doug Burgum still thinks selling off 2-3 MILLION acres of public land is a good idea. 🤦 https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/colorado/trump-cabinet-members-rfk-jr-burgum-pearce-visit-gj-for-health-and-outdoor-recreation-roundtable/article_54c7c889-84f2-4cec-8eb2-35ba90f1c898.html

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum defended Mike Lee's public land sell-off attempt at a roundtable yesterday.  https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/colorado/trump-cabinet-members-rfk-jr-burgum-pearce-visit-gj-for-health-and-outdoor-recreation-roundtable/article_54c7c889-84f2-4cec-8eb2-35ba90f1c898.html

Well that backfired... Trump asked national park visitors to snitch on signs in parks that tell the true story of our country. Visitors used the opportunity to tell the administration to get its hands off our parks. Read the full report: westernpriorities.org/resource/ana... #nationalparks

One thing is clear heading into this summer wildfire season: creating chaos and undermining preparedness benefits no one and puts lives and communities at risk. 🔥 Wildfire experts weigh in on a dangerous fire year: https://westwise.substack.com/p/wildfire-experts-say-trumps-attacks

USFS Chief Tom Schultz appeared in front of Congress today. He defended cuts to his agency and plans to vastly increase logging in national forests.  Here's our statement:  https://westernpriorities.org/2026/06/statement-on-forest-service-hearing-in-house-natural-resources-subcommittee-today/

The US Forest Service director Tom Schultz just denied human-caused climate change is real 🤦‍♂️

@joeneguse.bsky.social  shouting out our hazardous fuel treatment analysis in a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on wildfire today 👏 See the analysis here -> https://westernpriorities.org/resource/falling-behind-forest-service-fuel-treatment-gap-puts-communities-at-risk/

Our forests are TERRIBLY unprepared heading into what could be a detrimental fire season. 🔥 #wildfire #publiclands #forestservice #forest #nationalparks

Excellent piece by North Dakota columnist Mike McFeely for Inforum on what to watch for when Burgum shows up at the TR memorial library opening this summer https://www.inforum.com/opinion/columns/mcfeely-doug-burgums-very-bad-day #publiclands #northdakota #nationalparks

Trump's "energy czar" doesn't seem to understand the concept of batteries. 🤔🪫 Source: HNRC hearing 5/13/26

Burgum appeared before Congress again today. It was rough.... Our statement here: https://westernpriorities.org/2026/05/burgum-struggles-to-defend-trumps-dc-vanity-projects-and-energy-dominance-agenda-in-house-hearing/

.@Rep_Magaziner just schooled Interior @SecretaryBurgum on batteries and renewable energy...  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJZ61HLI8s0

Burgum on destroying a 1000-year-old Indigenous artifact: "this is a super unfortunate thing that happened" He then argues about exactly how much of the site was destroyed.

@secretaryburgum.bsky.social  does not know what matters to the American people

Once again @secretaryburgum.bsky.social doesn't seem to understand the concept of batteries

Burgum does not have answers about the $13 million reflecting pool contract... @neguse.house.gov

Interior @SecretaryBurgum is the face of high gas prices