With executive order, extremism rooted in Utah casts shadow over Montana

By Hugo Tureck, Susan Barrow, and Shane Doyle

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order instructing Secretary Ryan Zinke to review dozens of national monuments with an eye towards either shrinking the monuments or eliminating them altogether. The order involves all monuments designated in the last 21 years that are larger than 100,000 acres or those that Sec. Zinke decides were designated without enough local input.

Designated in 2001, the 377,000-acre Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is subject to this review. Established the same year, Pompeys Pillar National Monument...