Katie Boué

Just a lil road trip to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments to see the public lands our president doesn’t think are worth protecting. 🙃

On July 13, the president reduced the monuments by more than 90%, more than 3 million acres.

It leaves the landscape vulnerable to mining, oil and gas drilling and looting and vandalism of fossils and archaeological sites.

Bears Ears was reduced from 1.36 million acres to ~121,100 acres.

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was reduced from 1.87 million acres to ~181,500 acres.

Disrespectfully, hell no.

So I teamed up with @wildernesssociety to road trip down to the monuments with a group of creators to see the boundary reductions for ourselves, talk to local business owners and residents, and spend time in these precious landscapes.

I’ll be sharing more from our trip all week, and go follow the crew for their perspectives too:

🦎 @carolinegleich, althete + activist
🌼 @zachcoury, botanist
🎨 @jitterbug_art, artist
🌾 @blake_spalding, owner of @hellsbackbonegrill

And special shout out to @charlieluke, the Utah State Director for TWS who was an absolute trooper amongst the creators (he was 5 feet away from my car when I filmed that last screaming clip, probably a career first hahaha) and is now an honorary influencer too. 💅🏼