After Trump opened Bears Ears land to business, prospectors swooped in

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It didn’t take long for prospectors to stake their claims on land in southeast Utah that was previously protected in Bears Ears National Monument. On September 11, the first day the 1.2 million acres were opened up, miners filed 16 claims, two months after President Donald Trump shrank the monument by about 90 percent. All of the claims appear to have been filed by small-scale local miners with…

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