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Tourists and looters descend on Bears Ears as Biden mulls protections
Interior Secretary Haaland visits Utah monument amid controversy over whether to restore boundaries shrunk by Trump

The sun sets over Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
By Joshua Partlow
April 8, 2021 at 5:30 a.m. EDT
BLUFF, Utah — In the sandstone canyon where Vaughn Hadenfeldt once saw the bloody tracks of a mountain lion hauling off a mule deer, there are 1,000-year-old cliff dwellings decorated by rock paintings of bighorn sheep where one can still see the ancient footprint of an infant pressed into the wall.


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