Patagonia sues Trump over slashing of protected areas in Utah

Photo: Monument Valley from Muley Point, UT. Photo credit: “SAM_2695” by dedhed1950 via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. Article by Dani Anguiano. The Guardian – September 2, 2026.

Patagonia, the outdoor clothing and gear company, has joined a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s decision to significantly reduce the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, removing protections from nearly 3m acres. In July, the president approved the reduction of the sites by 90%, clearing the way to open the land to oil and gas companies. He argued in his proclamations that doing so would allow lands to be “put to a higher-priority use” and that they contained critical minerals important to “resource independence …[and] national security”. […]

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