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Utah state legislators and their staff lead the way for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and others in the distance Monday, May 8, 2017, through Bears Ears National Monument near Blanding, Utah. Zinke says he wants to make sure Native American cultural standing is preserved in a new national monument but cautioned that not all tribal members share the same opinion about it. (AP Photo/Michelle Price)

Friends, foes of national monument jockey for Zinke’s ear

By MICHELLE L. PRICE - Associated Press

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks at a news conference after having met with members of the Bears Ears Commission at the Bureau of Land Management office at the Gateway in Salt Lake City, Sunday, May 7, 2017. Zinke met with tribal leaders and elected officials as he kicked off a four-day trip to the state to inspect two disputed national monuments protecting more than 3 million combined acres of the state's red rock country. (Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

The Latest: Zinke says he wants to preserve Native culture

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U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks at a news conference after having met with members of the Bears Ears Commission at the Bureau of Land Management office at the Gateway in Salt Lake City, Sunday, May 7, 2017. Zinke met with tribal leaders and elected officials as he kicked off a four-day trip to the state to inspect two disputed national monuments protecting more than 3 million combined acres of the state's red rock country. (Scott Sommerdorf/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Zinke: Monument status may not be best to save sacred land

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - This July 15, 2016, file photo, shows The &quot;Moonhouse,&quot; one of the ancient sites of the Bears Ears region in McLoyd Canyon, near Blanding, Utah. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is set to start a four-day Utah trip on Sunday, May 7, 2017, to assess whether the designation of 3.2 million acres of national monuments in the state's southern red rock region should be scaled back or rescinded. Zinke will spend Sunday, May 7, 2017, in Salt Lake City before traveling Monday, May 8, 2017, to the southeastern corner of Utah to spend time in the Bears Ears region. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

The Latest: Zinke says he may not favor shrinking monuments

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FILE - This July 15, 2016, file photo, shows The &quot;Moonhouse,&quot; one of the ancient sites of the Bears Ears region in McLoyd Canyon, near Blanding, Utah. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is set to start a four-day Utah trip on Sunday, May 7, 2017, to assess whether the designation of 3.2 million acres of national monuments in the state's southern red rock region should be scaled back or rescinded. Zinke will spend Sunday, May 7, 2017, in Salt Lake City before traveling Monday, May 8, 2017, to the southeastern corner of Utah to spend time in the Bears Ears region. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Protest plague Ryan Zinke visit to Utah Bears Ears

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FILE - This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. The re-evaluation of the new Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is part of President Donald Trump's executive order calling for a review of 27 national monuments established by several former presidents. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is set to start a four-day Utah trip Sunday, May 7, 2017, to assess whether the designation of 3.2 million acres of national monuments in the state's southern red rock region should be scaled back or rescinded. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP file, File)

Ryan Zinke promises to hear out protesters of rescinding national monuments

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. The re-evaluation of the new Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is part of President Donald Trump's executive order calling for a review of 27 national monuments established by several former presidents. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is set to start a four-day Utah trip Sunday, May 7, 2017, to assess whether the designation of 3.2 million acres of national monuments in the state's southern red rock region should be scaled back or rescinded. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP file, File)

US Interior secretary begins Utah tour to eye monument sites

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks at the Interior Department in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, before President Donald Trump signed an Antiquities Executive Order. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ryan Zinke, Interior Secretary: No president in my lifetime ‘more for us’ than Trump

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this April 17, 2015, file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of an oil drilling rig as it arrives in Port Angeles, Wash., aboard a transport ship after traveling across the Pacific. (Daniella Beccaria/seattlepi.com via AP, File)

Donald Trump moves to reverse Obama limits on offshore drilling

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump holds a signed Antiquities Executive Order during a ceremony at the Interior Department in Washington, Wednesday, April, 26, 2017. The president is asking for a review of the designation of tens of millions of acres of land as "national monuments." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Donald Trump signs order to review ‘egregious abuse’ of national monument designations

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 1996, file photo, Vice President Al Gore applauds after President Bill Clinton signs a bill designating about 1.7 million acres of land in southern Utah's red-rock cliff as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, at the Grand Canyon National Park, in Arizona. As Utah waits to see if President Barack Obama will designate a new national monument in the state, the 20th anniversary of the Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument rekindled memories of an event that ignited simmering western frustrations about federal ownership of public land. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File)

Ryan Zinke to review national monuments including Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Montana Editorial Roundup

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Interior Secretary: No harassment allowed at National Parks

By SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

US halts plan to transfer Montana bison management to tribe

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US Interior chief plans California talks on water, wildlife

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ATV ban lifted in parts of Utah canyon home to 2014 protest

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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, left, and Harpers Ferry National Historic Park Superintendent Tyrone Brandyburg, hold up a check during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 3, 2017. President Donald Trump gave his first quarter salary to the National Park Service. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump donates first 3 months of salary to Park Service

By JULIE BYKOWICZ - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks at the Interior Department in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, after signing an order lifting a moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands and a related order on coal royalties. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Zinke: Border wall ‘complex,’ faces geographic challenges

By MATTHEW DALY and ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

Newly sworn-in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and his wife Lola, right, greets an Interior Department employee on the Interior Department's 168th birthday, Friday, March 3, 2017, at the Interior Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly) ** FILE **

Ryan Zinke touts Donald Trump’s ‘all of the above’ energy plans

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Utah governor asks Interior Secretary to visit Bears Ears

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