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ICYMI, the attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante is no longer on the fast track. See pull quote below, referencing the current management plan for the monument. "“That plan, for the first time, heeded our voices and our Traditional Knowledge by establishing a framework for Tribal co-stewardship over our ancestral lands,” said Autumn Gillard, coordinator for the Grand Staircase-Escalante Inter-Tribal Coalition, and who is Southern Paiute. Gillard said use of the Congressional Review Act to overturn the monument guidelines would have been a “a direct strike against the Federal government’s duty to consult with Tribes.” It would also be the first time Congress used the act to undo a management plan for a national monument." Read more: https://lnkd.in/gs6NVnfT

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