Protections for 27 national monuments may be curtailed, cut
Source: Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Twenty-seven national monuments, mostly in the West, face the curtailing or elimination of protections put in place over the past two decades by presidents from both parties, the Interior Department said.
President Donald Trump ordered the review last month, saying protections imposed by his three immediate predecessors amounted to “a massive federal land grab” that “should never have happened.”
A list released Friday includes 22 monuments on federal land in 11, mostly Western states, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah, Nevada’s Basin and Range and Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine.
The review also targets five marine monuments in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, including a huge reserve in Hawaii established in 2006 by President George W. Bush and expanded last year by President Barack Obama.
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Read: offshore oil drilling.
I wonder who asked Cheeto for that?
Trump signs new executive order....
Mr. Trump, please explain how is a national monument - on property owned by the US government - a federal land-grab?
Our government already owns the properties where the monuments are situated, and nobody is "grabbing" anything.
The monuments are protected for all the American citizens of every generation to visit and enjoy.
How and why is it up to you Mr. Trump to change that protection?
By de-classifying the federal protection of these monuments, Mr. Trump you are setting in motion a land-grab of another kind. You may not *sell* our national monuments for private personal ownership. I would consider that an impeachable offense.
