{"id":3989,"date":"2026-07-24T16:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:38:18","slug":"118-outdoor-brands-say-trump-went-too-far-with-utahs-monument-reductions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3989","title":{"rendered":"118 outdoor brands say Trump went too far with Utah\u2019s monument reductions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>KEY POINTS<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>118 outdoor brands, including Patagonia, REI, Black Diamond and Osprey, are opposing President Trump&#8217;s decision to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.<\/li>\n<li>Local county leaders support the reductions, saying they restore balance, ease management burdens and create opportunities for responsible economic development.<\/li>\n<li>The dispute reflects competing views of the monuments&#8217; economic impact, with outdoor businesses pointing to tourism and job growth while local officials argue the original designations eliminated traditional industries such as mining and timber.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A group of 118 outdoor businesses sent a  to several federal agencies on Friday expressing their \u201cfirm and unequivocal opposition\u201d to the recent size reduction of two national monuments in Utah. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3987\">How to watch the Days of \u201947 Parade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On July 13, President Donald Trump, joined by Utah\u2019s governor and the state\u2019s entire congressional delegation, signed two executive orders shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by about 90%. <\/p>\n<p>In conversations with the Deseret News, outdoor brand CEOs and local county commissioners shared concerns about how the land has been managed. While the groups view Trump\u2019s decision differently, everyone is frustrated with the decades-long tug-of-war. <\/p>\n<p>Local commissioners see the the redrawing of the boundaries as an economic and environmental win, while the outdoor businesses view it as a slippery slope to privatization. <\/p>\n<p>Signatures from Patagonia, REI Co-op, Black Diamond, Osprey, Backcountry and more were collective by the Colorado-based Conservation Alliance. <\/p>\n<h3>What has changed in land management?<\/h3>\n<p>The 2.9 million acres that experienced a status change are still federally owned and federally managed, but some of their rules for use, access and resource development have shifted.<\/p>\n<p>Bears Ears is now open for new motorized routes through the newly non-monument sections. <\/p>\n<p>The proclamation also opens the newly non-monument lands for potential mineral and geothermal development, mining claims and rights, and other land uses allowed under current public land laws. <\/p>\n<h3>Why are Patagonia, Osprey, Black Diamond and others opposed? <\/h3>\n<p>Patagonia\u2019s chief impact and communications officer Corley Kenna told the Deseret News that she opposed the reduction because it \u201cchipped away at public land protection.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The California-based clothing company has been involved in the political issues surrounding Bears Ears since 2013. They advocated for the national monument\u2019s initial establishment by giving grants to nonprofits leading the effort. <\/p>\n<p>When Trump reduced the monument\u2019s size the first time in 2017, Patagonia sued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t walked away from this issue. It made all the sense in the world to sign onto the letter,\u201d Kenna said. <\/p>\n<p>Neil Fiske, the president of Black Diamond, similarly described the move to the Deseret News as an \u201cunprecedented attack on our public lands.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Millcreek, Utah, Black Diamond makes gear for a variety of outdoor activities like climbing, hiking and skiing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur company was born, literally born, out of these kinds of monuments. People go down to Indian Creek to climb all the time, and I don\u2019t know, we feel this is just a core part of who we are and where we came from,\u201d Fiske said. <\/p>\n<p>After the reduction, Indian Creek is still within Bears Ears National Monument. <\/p>\n<p>In a separate conversation, Mark Galbraith, the vice president of products at Osprey Packs, told the Deseret News that he was worried the monument\u2019s land reduction would move southern Utah toward privatization. <\/p>\n<p>He added that he hoped the oil and gas industry would stay away from the land. \u201cI\u2019m not anti-oil. I drive to work. I need gas. We make backpacks and products out of synthetic fabric. We need it, but we need it responsibly in the areas where it\u2019s not having a negative impact,\u201d Galbraith said. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3985\">Photo gallery: 2026 Deseret News Pioneer Day marathon<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Meanwhile, local county commissioners are pleased with change<\/h3>\n<p>San Juan County, where Bears Ears is located, is home to about 14,500 people, and it covers about 7,800 square miles. It\u2019s Utah\u2019s largest county by total area, and 93% of the land is federally owned. <\/p>\n<p>Lori Maughan, a San Juan county commissioner, told the Deseret News that much of the media surrounding the reduction has been untrue. <\/p>\n<p>She referenced ads she\u2019d seen online that show mining and oil pumps dotting the landscape. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a false narrative, and it\u2019s so far from the truth,\u201d Maughan said. She continued, \u201cIf you like to backpack, hike or do things outside, you still can do every one of those things\u201d without the monument designation. <\/p>\n<p>She said she appreciated Trump\u2019s executive orders, because she believes they will help her county manage the land and the monument itself more effectively. <\/p>\n<p>Managing some aspects of Bears Ears, previously 1.36 million acres, fell on her county, Maughan said. \u201cThere\u2019s just not the capacity for us to manage such big, vast swaths of land. How do we do it financially?\u201d She referenced seeing trash built up on the side of the highway between Grand County and Monticello. <\/p>\n<p>Maughan also expressed frustration over groups based outside of Utah being so involved in the issue. \u201cThe other difficult part is that they don\u2019t live here,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult when everyone wants to tell us what to do, like we don\u2019t know how to manage our own place.\u201d <\/p>\n<h3>What have national monuments actually done for the economy? <\/h3>\n<p>Leland Pollock, Garfield County\u2019s commission chair, told the Deseret News that former President Bill Clinton\u2019s designation of Grand Staircase-Escalante as a national monument hurt his county\u2019s economic health. <\/p>\n<p>In Clinton\u2019s original designation, more than 550,000 acres of the monument were in Garfield County. With Trump\u2019s 2026 reduction, Garfield County now holds about 170,000 acres. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen that monument was created, we still had two sawmills. &#8230; The notion that this has been some big economic driver is more propaganda,\u201d Pollock said. <\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThe reason the sawmills went away is because of environmental litigation of timber sales, so they shut the sawmills down. They killed that industry, they killed all the mining, they killed all the drilling, and they took away half of all the grazing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Pollock referenced the speech Clinton made upon designating Grand Staircase-Escalante a national monument. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am concerned about a large coal mine proposed for the area. Mining jobs are good jobs, and mining is important to our national economy and to our national security,\u201d Clinton said in 1996. \u201cBut we can\u2019t have mines everywhere, and we shouldn\u2019t have mines that threaten our national treasures.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Pollock said he believes Clinton\u2019s original designation was done \u201ccompletely the wrong way,\u201d because \u201che didn\u2019t do it for the normal use of the Antiquities Act, like creating a Bryce Canyon. He did it to stop the analytics coal mine, period.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the outdoor businesses\u2019 letter cited a study by Headwaters Economics, which says that the regions surrounding Grand Staircase-Escalante have seen employment rates grow by 51%, population increase by 26% and per capita income increase by 41% from 2001 to 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3973\">Opinion: America\u2019s barn still needs neighbors to keep it standing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A  came from service jobs, such as doctors, hospitality workers and teachers. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of 118 outdoor businesses are condemning Trump&#8217;s decision to shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-utah"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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