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[Kordelle]

The following National Monuments are currently under review by the administration:

Basin and Range Nevada
Bears Ears Utah
Berryessa Snow Mountain California
Canyons of the Ancients Colorado
Carrizo Plain California
Cascade Siskiyou Oregon
Craters of the Moon Idaho
Giant Sequoia California
Gold Butte Nevada
Grand Canyon-Parashant Arizona
Grand Staircase-Escalante Utah
Hanford Reach Washington
Ironwood Forest Arizona
Mojave Trails California
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks New Mexico
Rio Grande del Norte New Mexico
Sand to Snow California
San Gabriel Mountains California
Sonoran Desert Arizona
Upper Missouri River Breaks Montana
Vermilion Cliffs Arizona


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[karasu]

I know that being the president is an important job, but goddamn are they trying to change everything about this country?

 

[Amalthea]

Propably looks where he can put Mt. Rushmore-esque monuments of himself and defund all the ones where he can't.

 

[daviyoung]

I want to see his face on Mount Rushmore

 

[cameron]

Some jimmies are rustled because of Obama (and Clinton).

Back in December, NYT: "Obama Designates Two New National Monuments, Protecting 1.65 Million Acres"

WASHINGTON — President Obama designated two new national monuments on Wednesday, protecting 1.35 million acres of federal land surrounding the Bears Ears Buttes in southeastern Utah and about 300,000 acres around Gold Butte in Nevada, northeast of Las Vegas.

The monuments are Mr. Obama’s latest effort to protect public lands and waters from development and to nail down as much of his environmental legacy as he can before Donald J. Trump assumes the presidency on Jan. 20.

But some local residents and elected Republicans have opposed the Obama administration’s extensive efforts to protect Western landscapes, calling them federal land grabs, and Utah officials voiced vehement opposition on Wednesday. The family of a Nevada rancher, Cliven Bundy, helped take over a national wildlife refuge this year in protest against such federal actions.

And now, NPR: "With National Monuments Under Review, Bears Ears Is Focus Of Fierce Debate"

A lot of the anger over federal public land in rural Utah today can be traced back to a windy, gray day in Arizona in September 1996. At the Grand Canyon, President Bill Clinton formally designated the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, more than 100 miles away.

"On this remarkable site, God's handiwork is everywhere in the natural beauty of the Escalante Canyons," he said.

But Clinton didn't set foot in Utah. The planning for the monument was largely done in secret, and state leaders had little warning it was coming.

Now, nearly 21 years later, mistrust toward the federal government persists, in the tightknit, mostly Mormon town of Blanding, Utah. Folks can't help but draw a parallel to how President Barack Obama's sweeping Bears Ears National Monument ended up in their backyard.

Native Americans from around the Four Corners region, where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet, who back the new monument are open about the fact that they're getting outside help and money because they didn't have a voice before, according to interviews with tribal leaders. Many tribes in the region have officially come out in support of the monument, though not all.

Maryboy was involved with the first talks with Utah's congressional delegation almost a decade ago about protecting Bears Ears as a National Conservation Area. They broke down last year, then came Obama's executive order.

"Our gripe and our fight is to preserve what's there, the Native American artifacts, the antiquities and all the shrines and the ruins," Maryboy says.

The sacred burial grounds of the famous Navajo leader Manuelito are included in the new monument. Maryboy sees the monument as crucial to protecting these antiquities from vandalism and looting, a historical problem in San Juan County.

An ancient petroglyph panel is pocked with bullet holes. Some say increased federal protection is needed to prevent further damage and vandalism to areas like this one, which is now included in Bears Ears National Monument.

 

[Maintenance]

An ancient petroglyph panel is pocked with bullet holes.

Couldn't be any more american even if they tried.

 

[Monocle]

You've gotta be one serious beer guzzlin' gun lovin' fucktard to take aim at an ancient petroglyph panel. What the hell is wrong with people?

 

[Muppet of a Man]

You've gotta be one serious beer guzzlin' gun lovin' fucktard to take aim at an ancient petroglyph panel. What the hell is wrong with people?

These christian fundamentalists are the white American version of the Taliban. That's what wrong with them. No respect for culture other than their own insular, backwards bullshit.

 

[karasu]

Some jimmies are rustled because of Obama (and Clinton).

Back in December, NYT: "Obama Designates Two New National Monuments, Protecting 1.65 Million Acres"



And now, NPR: "With National Monuments Under Review, Bears Ears Is Focus Of Fierce Debate"

These guys would erase Obama from the historical record if they could. It is really sickening.