The Guardian: Revealed: the full extent of Trump’s ‘meat cleaver’ assault on US wilderness

But after Donald Trump took office in 2017, Bears Ears was the focus of a sophisticated, pro-development pressure campaign.

“The lobbyist-filled Trump administration didn’t just carve and cut corners for these oil-funded front groups,” says Jayson O’Neill, of the Western Values Project, a conservation group, “it gleefully took a meat cleaver to our national monuments and land protections.”