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Bears Ears National Monument
National Monument
National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

Utah · UT

2016

Established

1.4M

Acres

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Bears Ears protects over 100,000 archaeological sites including cliff dwellings, rock art, and ancestral Puebloan ruins. The twin buttes are sacred to numerous Native American tribes.

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Bears Ears National Monument is a United States national monument located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, established by President Barack Obama by presidential proclamation on December 28, 2016. The monument protects 1,351,849 acres of public land surrounding the Bears Ears—a pair of buttes—and the Indian Creek corridor rock climbing area. The Native American names for the buttes have the same meaning in each of the languages represented in the region. The names are listed in the presidential proclamation as "Hoon’Naqvut, Shash Jáa [sic], Kwiyaghatʉ Nükavachi/Kwiyagatu Nukavachi, Ansh An Lashokdiwe"—all four mean "Bears Ears".

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