WASHINGTON, March 26 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement on congressional Republicans' effort to overturn the Bureau of Land Management's Resource Management Plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument:
"For time immemorial, Indigenous people living on the Colorado Plateau have called the vast canyons and desert landscapes within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument home. After years of meetings and discussions with the Tribes, local governments, and community members, the Bureau of Land Management finalized a plan for the Monument that ensured the protection of Tribal cultural resources on their ancestral homelands. Despite t...