<p>SALT LAKE CITY &mdash; Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has made her recommendation about whether to reverse President Donald Trump’s decision to downsize two sprawling national monuments in Utah — but it wasn’t known Friday what she decided. </p>
<p>The Interior Department gave her report to President Biden on Wednesday, according to a court filing Thursday in a legal battle that began more than three years ago after Trump’s decision. </p>
<p>It doesn’t say what is in that report. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys mentioned the report as part of a request for more time to address the judge’s question if the legal battle has become a moot point. </p>
<p>Interior Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz declined to provide any information about the report. </p>
<p>Haaland traveled to Utah in April to visit the monuments as she became the latest cabinet official to step into a public lands tug-of-war ongoing for years. </p>
<p>President Joe Biden asked her to research whether the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante should be restored.</p>
<p>Native American tribes supported the creation of Bears Ears by President Barack Obama, but Republican state leaders opposed it. Grand Staircase is older, but has long been a point of contention for conservative state leaders who consider both monuments U.S. government overreach.</p>