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Behind the Headlines: Feds stack a Bears Ears advisory group with critics, and Moab’s tourism boom reaches a tipping point

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) This Dec. 28, 2016, file photo shows the two buttes that make up the namesake for Utah's Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. The selections for the 15-person Bears Ears National Monument panel posted online Friday, April 19, 2019 by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management reveal a few people who seem to strike a middle ground, but nobody who was an outspoken proponent of the monument created by President Barack Obama in December 2016.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) This Dec. 28, 2016, file photo shows the two buttes that make up the namesake for Utah's Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. The selections for the 15-person Bears Ears National Monument panel posted online Friday, April 19, 2019 by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management reveal a few people who seem to strike a middle ground, but nobody who was an outspoken proponent of the monument created by President Barack Obama in December 2016.

  | April 26, 2019, 2:03 p.m.
| Updated: 2:04 p.m.

An advisory council for the reduced Bears Ears National Monument lacks monument supporters. Environmental activists shut down a Utah Inland Port Authority board meeting. And Moab’s tourism boom reaches a tipping point.

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