{"id":27065,"date":"2015-09-11T16:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=27065"},"modified":"2015-09-11T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:31:24","slug":"september-11-2015-battle-bears-ears-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/09\/11\/september-11-2015-battle-bears-ears-utah\/27065\/","title":{"rendered":" The Battle Over Bears Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five Indian tribes want the federal government to create a national monument called Bears Ears to protect nearly two million acres of land sacred to Native Americans in southeastern  Utah. But, as Lucky Severson reports, local residents want at least some of the land kept available for development and recreational use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five Indian tribes want the federal government to protect nearly two million acres of land sacred to Native Americans. But the proposal has created tension with local residents who want access to the land for recreation and development. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/09\/11\/september-11-2015-battle-bears-ears-utah\/27065\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":27118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[9759,7878,6776],"class_list":["post-27065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-land-dispute","tag-native-americans","tag-utah","topics-us-domestic-issues","faith-other-world-religions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Battle Over Bears Ears | September 11, 2015 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Residents in San Juan County, Utah are fighting a proposal to create a national monument that protects Native American land.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/09\/11\/september-11-2015-battle-bears-ears-utah\/27065\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Battle Over Bears Ears | September 11, 2015 | Religion &amp; 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