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1. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · By Addy Baird, Brooke Larsen, Dylan Eubank, The Salt Lake Tribune; and Andrew Christiansen, The Times-Independent

   ‘Motivated by love’: Utahns find strength in numbers during protest of Trump’s monument slashing (opens the original)

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   Nearly a thousand people gathered across the state Monday afternoon and evening to protest the loss of monument protections for nearly three million acres of federal land across southern Utah. The goal, protesters said, was to raise awareness about the loss of the public lands, to be in solidarity with others who shared their concerns and to pressure state and local representatives to take their concerns to Washington, D.C. “I was raised to have a deep care for the wildernesses in our state and

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