(Cedar City, UT) — A new group has come forward against Utah’s efforts to defederalize its national monuments. More than 25 law professors specializing in natural recourses and public land have sent a brief offering arguments to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver calling it to dismiss Utah’s lawsuit against the Antiquities Act of 1906. The over 100-year-old law allows a President to protect land by designating it as a national monument. In 2021 President Biden used the law to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments after former President Trump cut their acreage in 2017.