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Everyone was happy with the Bears Ears land swap. Here’s why it fell apart anyway.

The exchange was supposed to be a ‘gold mine’ for Utah schools and keep the federal monument together.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) View of Monument Valley, with the Bears Ears in the distance, from the Pine Spring in Monument Valley, on Thursday, May 26, 2022. A proposed exchange of state lands within the monument for federal lands and mineral resources across the state fell apart this week.