Two executive orders signed Monday afternoon slashed the size of the Utah national monuments revered by tribes and public lands advocates. Grazing, mining and drilling interests wanted them opened to extraction.By Wyatt MyskowMonday morning, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments stretched across over three million acres of public lands in southern Utah, protecting some of the country’s most remote landscapes and scores of archaeological sites sacred to local tribes. By that evening, President Donald Trump had cut the monuments to just 302,600 acres.