On Tuesday, November 29, the Access Fund filed a motion to intervene in a Utah lawsuit that attacks President Biden’s restoration of Bears Ears National Monument. In late August, the state of Utah—led by Utah’s Attorney General Sean Reyes and backed by a powerful coalition of the state’s conservative powerbrokers—sued the Biden Administration over its 2021 restoration of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Utah has argued that the size of the monuments, which together amount to some 3.2 million acres, contradicts the Antiquities Act of 1906 and constitutes “abusive federal overreach.” The attorney general also says that the…