Sec. Ryan Zinke Recommends Shrinking Four National Monuments To Make Way For Mining And Logging
Source: Associated Press
Sec. Ryan Zinke Recommends Shrinking Four National Monuments To Make Way For Mining And Logging
By MATTHEW DALY
49 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be reduced in size, potentially opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of land revered for natural beauty and historical significance to mining, logging and other development. ... Zinkes recommendation, revealed in a leaked memo submitted to the White House, prompted an outcry from environmental groups who promised to take the Trump administration to court to block the moves.
The Interior secretarys plan would scale back two huge Utah monuments Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante along with Nevadas Gold Butte and Oregons Cascade-Siskiyou. The monuments encompass more than 3.6 million acres an area larger than Connecticut and were created by Democratic administrations under a century-old law that allows presidents to protect sites considered historic, geographically or culturally important. ... Zinkes plan also would allow logging at a newly designated monument in Maine and urges more grazing, hunting and fishing at two sites in New Mexico. It also calls for a new assessment of border-safety risks at a monument in southern New Mexico.
Bears Ears, designated for federal protection by former President Barack Obama, totals 1.3 million acres in southeastern Utah on land that is sacred to Native Americans and home to tens of thousands of archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings. Grand Staircase-Escalante, in southern Utah, includes nearly 1.9 million acres in a sweeping vista larger than the state of Delaware. Republicans have howled over the monument since its creation in 1996 by former President Bill Clinton.
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The Associated Press obtained a copy of the 19-page memo, which was submitted to the White House last month and has not been officially released.
Read more: https://apnews.com/d112892cf5d24e27b27820bd3c8cb9f4/Interior-chief-urges-shrinking-4-national-monuments-in-West
Hat tip, Joe.My.God: Sec. Ryan Zinke Recommends Shrinking Four National Monuments To Make Way For Mining And Logging
http://www.joemygod.com/2017/09/18/interior-sec-ryan-zinke-recommends-shrinking-national-monuments-make-way-mining-logging/
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Interior chief urges shrinking 4 national monuments in West
http://www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article173893061.html
BY MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 1:29 PM
WASHINGTON
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be reduced in size, potentially opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of land revered for natural beauty and historical significance to mining, logging and other development.
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Associated Press writers Brady McCombs in Salt Lake City and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M., contributed to this story.
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#AltGovt Megathread: Unofficial Government Agency Twitter Accounts, Updated September 18, 2017
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Of course, he must be stopped. We want those lands protected from just this sort of shenanigan.
F*cking Republicans make me sick.
Maybe it's time to take to the streets and take back this country from the Manifest Destiny assholes.........................
And as for this f*cking former Navy seal....................F*CK YOU and the horse you ride around on with that fucking "white racist hat" on top of your f*cking racist pin head for a brain.
What happens there dick head if someone from the Indigenous People where to file suit and demand your house that sits on top of "our Land" be taken back..............................
Willis Creek Slot Canyon
Skutumpah Road
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Utah
I rest my case.
DemoTex
