Ryan Zinke urges Trump to cut two more national monuments

washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 12/5/17 | Josh Siegel

[ColdOne]

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended Tuesday that President Trump shrink two more national monuments and change how six others are managed, expanding the administration’s effort to roll back what it sees as excessive use of presidential authority to protect public lands.

Zinke, a day after Trump signed proclamations reducing the size of two Utah national monuments, urged the president to cut Nevada’s Gold Butte and Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou.

[ColdOne]

OMGoodness.....Trump taking away land from the federal government Public. Unreal..now federal goverment land is called public land....I have seen it all now.

Up is down. Lies are the truth.

[MarMema]

I love this. Go Trump!!

[SaveFerris]

GET RID of the Satan-and-Obama-inspired “Stonewall Inn” as a national monument.

It is an abomination. Just like the whole Obama pResidency.

[SandRat]

Is Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke an OB hold over?

[Gay State Conservative]

Monuments that contain large amounts of oil,coal and other minerals should be trimmed...particular those that were recently expanded by BillyBob and OsamaObama.

[PGR88]

Just to f*** with the leftists, Trump should declare the 9 counties surrounding Washington DC as “National Monuments.”

[Williams]

Clinton created a whole national park out of wasteland in return for foreign payments (Indonesian I believe) to prevent American clean coal development.

[matthew fuller]

I was thinking more in line of cutting two more faces in Mt. Rushmore- Donald’s and Melania’s.

[Baynative]

While the media is obsessed with tweeters President Trump keeps on winning.

I hope we are going to see some legislation or irrevocable orders put in place to block the Agenda 21 land grabs planned for much of the rural areas in America.

[Balding_Eagle]

excessive use of presidential authority to protect public lands.

Hardy 'protection'.

More like seizing.

[Verginius Rufus]

Maybe he could deflect the flak he is receiving over cutting the size of these national monuments by created a brand new national monument: the Barack Obama Birthplace National Monument. Of course he would need the cooperation of the government of Kenya to pinpoint the location.

[BBB333]

You GO. my former congressman!

[OldMissileer]

Clinton created a whole national park out of wasteland in return for foreign payments (Indonesian I believe) to prevent American clean coal development.

That was the Grand Staircase Escalante. He and Hillary received millions from James Riady, from Indonesia, who controlled one of the only other major deposits of clean coal in the world.

[ridesthemiles]

I wish Zinke would look again at the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge in SE Oregon.

I think Obama created that to clear ranchers out & then to let the Uranium deports under that land be mined & sold to Russia.

[SaxxonWoods]

Great news on this front so far and I’m hoping for more!

What’s wrong with sovereign state governments administering the public lands within their borders? They are easily more capable of that than the feds.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I think Trump should declare 2 million acres of central New York State a national monument to the Indians that traversed the area originally and to preserve the sacred locations that they used to defecate.