Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says he will recommend to President Trump that none of 27 national monuments under review be abolished. But he will propose downsizing a “handful” of monuments, including Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah, which he announced earlier in the summer.

The changes to that handful will trigger a legal challenge and political fight in Congress. Conservationists, who feared the sweeping nature of Trump’s review would lead to substantial reductions in the size of large monuments in the West, say they will challenge those boundary readjustments in court. Meanwhile, Republicans in the House of Representatives who had urged Trump to take stronger action and revoke multiple monuments outright say they will now promote legislation to