President Donald Trumps legacy on public lands is a four-year war against protected wild places, which has included dismantling Utahs Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

That legacy will follow him long after hes out of the White House. But many of the rollbacks are unlikely to survive the incoming Democratic administration.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have vowed to not only restore the Utah monuments, but designate new protected sites to safeguard ecologically important landscapes and combat the global climate crisis.

As President, Biden will take immediate steps to reverse the Trump administrations assaults on Americas natural treasures, including by reversing Trumps attacks on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Bears Ears, and Grand Staircase-Escalante, reads their comprehensive plan for tribal nations, which the campaign released in October.

The incoming administrations plan for combating the climate crisis similarly notes that Biden will protect areas impacted by President Trumps attack on federal lands and waters, as well as establish national monuments and parks that reflect Americas natural heritage.

Biden campaign spokesman Matt Hill told HuffPost that everything weve put out there in campaign policies/statements still stands, but we dont have more details beyond that at this time.

In late 2017, after a sham review of recent national monument designations, Trump carved more than 2 million acres from the southern Utah sites. The boundary of Bears Ears, a 1.35 million-acre landscape that several tribes consider sacred, was cut by 85%. Nearby 1.87 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante , the largest land national monument in the country and rich in both archeological and paleontological resources, was cut roughly in half.

The administration has also finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaskas fragile Arctic National Wildlife Refuge , an area that the Indigenous Gwichin people of northern Alaska and Canada call the sacred place where life begins , to oil drilling; greenlighted commercial fishing within Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, a 4,900-square-mile protected site off the East Coast; and bulldozed and blasted Indigenous cultural and burial sites within Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a UNESCO biosphere reserve, to make way for Trumps wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.