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[Beer Monkey]

Interior secretary recommends Trump alter at least three national monuments, including Bears Ears

In a report Zinke submitted to the White House, the secretary recommended reducing the size of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante, as well as Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, according to multiple individuals briefed on the decision. President Bill Clinton declared the 1.9 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante in 1996, while President Barack Obama designated the 1.35 million-acre Bears Ears last year. Cascade-Siskiyou, which now encompasses more than 113,000 acres, was established by Clinton shortly before leaving office and expanded by Obama in January.

“No President should use the authority under the Antiquities Act to restrict public access, prevent hunting and fishing, burden private land, or eliminate traditional land uses, unless such action is needed to protect the object,” Zinke said in a statement. “The recommendations I sent to the president on national monuments will maintain federal ownership of all federal land and protect the land under federal environmental regulations, and also provide a much needed change for the local communities who border and rely on these lands for hunting and fishing, economic development, traditional uses, and recreation.”

The party of Teddy Roosevelt, folks.

 

[sturgboski]

*sigh* "Oh Clinton AND Obama did these things? Let's get rid of them all. Drill and needlessly hunt all you want."

I hate Trump and his terrorist organization the Republican Party.

 

[WillyFive]

"..and also provide a much needed change for the local communities who border and rely on these lands for hunting and fishing, economic development, traditional uses, and recreation."

NO!

That's why the National Parks were invented in the first place, to keep those things from ruining the locations!

 

[BlueTsunami]

I love how 'economic development' is burried in other specific uses. Drill baby, drill.

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

disgusting. we need this fucker and his goons outted

 

[pirateluigi]

"We must protect our monuments at all costs. No, not those parks. The statues of racists, slavers, and traitors. Those are beautiful and irreplaceable. Nature is dumb"

 

[Madness]

Coupled with his repeal of the clean water act, which would open wetlands and streams and rivers to fossil fuel producers again, it is clear what Trump is catering to. These people are against the BLM and they are those Cliven Bundy hick fucks who think they own the land, have the right to farm and hunt and do as they please.

Let's not keep America naturally beautiful for centuries but tear down trees to graze cattle for sale, hunt and shoot and kill all wolves, bears, cougars and also deer.