You may want to read this one too.
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/hisnps/npshistory/righter.htm
Published by the National Park Service and shares some reasons Monuments and other re-designations, were used to get public land moved into a National Park, where hunters loose all their hunting access. Notice how much concern for hunting is discussed in the article........ twice, lumped in with trapping, and hardly then. We aren't relevant, in the big picture.
Now we think hunting and not must else, but I promise you, regardless of what the Peterson article says about Jason Chaffetz's reasons for backing off, it wasn't because of his concern for hunters or their concerns. As you know, he's not running for office again, at least for right now, so he won't, at the present, be passing any legislation. But rest assure, he is as determined as ever and I'm more inclined to think he and his political counter parts are regrouping as we speak. Maybe going to wait out Donald Trump, but not going away.
Hunters are but a blimp, in the huge economic/political environment. It's better to accept that, so you can fight the best fight, if you intend to win the war.
The Peterson hunting article is biased toward hunting, and in doing so, it ignores, to a great degree, the two elephants in the room, when it comes to Federal control, vs State control of public lands. Those two elephants are the growing political behavior by US Presidents, to use public land management as a vote generating tool and the growing populations in the Western States, that need revenue to support the growth. When 81% and 69% of your State is controlled by someone without the State's best interest coming first, eventually the State will push for more control. As the Feds tighten Federal control and limit use, not hunting use, that hardly an after thought, the States are going to resist and push back.
Regardless of how this present push/issue by Utah and other States turns out, and I still believe the States (Utah) will loose this round, again, if the politicians don't get together and get the Feds to substantially increase their revenue to the States, for these public lands, and/or stop carving out more Monuments, Parks and Wilderness areas, the States will be back at it again. They will wait for more stars to line up and they will chink away at it, until, one the Federal elephant changes how it's funds the State for use of these land and two, it stops re-designating the public land, in the States. If these two issue don't get resolved, this will continue, in one form or another.
You can take that to the bank.
Like the front wheel on your four wheel drive pick-up, if it's out of alignment, it will just keep eating away at the rubber, until it blows up, and you can put a new tire on it but unless you fix the real problem, you'll just keep blowing out new tires, as fast as you can replace and wear them out.
DC