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    Co-management at Bears Ears forges ahead

    Jun 01, 2024 4 minutes

    of tribal nations persuaded President Barack Obama to not only establish Bears Ears National Monument but stipulate that it would be co-managed by tribes and federal agencies. Since then, triballed campaigns have strategically — and successfully — sought Antiquities Act protections for ancestral lands from Avi Kwa Ame in the Mojave Desert to Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni near the Grand Canyon. Tribes are currently leading or involved in campaigns to establish the recently proposed Kw’ts’án, Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments in California and Bahsahwahbee in Nevada. On May 2, the Biden administration expanded Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in California, directing the Department of Interior to work with

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