Tribal leaders: Bears Ears can't wait for legislative fix

摘要

Native American tribal leaders are pressing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to recommend swift action to restorethe Bears Ears National Monument to its original footprint - noting that lawmakers who say they want alegislative solution have yet to offer a formal counterproposal for the site's boundaries.In a letter to Haaland released yesterday, the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition also reiterated its request toexpand the southeastern Utah site to 1.9 million acres, adding an extra 500,000 acres to the monument's initialsize.