SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The Bureau of Land Management is investigating a suspicious fire that damaged a remote guard station in Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported (https://bit.ly/2q8tNN5 ) Monday that damage to the structure had been discovered shortly before U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s arrival in Utah May 7.
Zinke had visited the monument to tour Bears Ears as part of a national review.
The fire is the third suspicious incident targeting remote land management structures in the past year.
Last year, someone might have attempted to burn down a guard station in Beef Basin. That incident, which left the building unscathed, remains under investigation.
Also last year, anti-federal militia leader Bill Keebler had been indicted in an undercover sting for trying to blow up a guard station in Arizona.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune, https://www.sltrib.com
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