John Curtis: “I'm absolutely convinced we can do that at Bears Ears.”

“But for some reason we were getting, we got them all out of that mentality and we passed this, what I think is just this amazing bill that put to rest forever where certain activities would take place on the land. I'm absolutely convinced we can do that at Bears Ears. I don't know Escalante and the Grand Staircase as well, because for seven, eight years I did Bears Ears, but I suspect that formula would also work over there.” (38:51–38:56)

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