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Analysis: Can Trump Shrink the Bears Ears? And Who Will Decide What Stays?

Austin Cope
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KSJD

After Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced his recommendationto shrink the Bears Ears National Monument on Monday, KSJD's Austin Cope and Gail Binkly sat down to analyze how that story could play out. Click below to listen.

Gail Binkly is a career journalist who has worked for the Colorado Springs Gazette and Cortez Journal, and was the editor of the Four Corners Free Press, based in Cortez.
Austin Cope is a former Morning Edition host for KSJD and now produces work on a freelance basis for the station. He grew up in Cortez and hosted a show on KSJD when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 2010, he lived in Belgium, Ohio, Spain, northern Wyoming, and Himachal Pradesh, India before returning to the Cortez area. He has a degree in Politics from Oberlin College in Ohio.
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