Posted on 09/18/2017 6:37:15 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has recommended scaling back 10 of the 27 national monuments under a review directed by President Trump.
The scale of the monument changes was disclosed in a draft memorandum obtained by several news services on Sunday night. The White House said in a statement that it does not comment on leaked documents.
According to the memo, Zinke would shrink 4 of the monuments on the list, and significantly alter the rules of land use for the remaining six.
The memo went to President Trump last month but the administration would not disclose which monuments would be altered based on Zinke's review. Trump will make a decision based on the recommendations made in the memo.
The four monuments that Zinke would have Trump narrow in size would include Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, Nevada's Gold Butte, and Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou. No details were provided on the exact size of the reductions.
The changes recommended for the remaining monuments in the memo would relax restrictions on certain previously forbidden activities, such as timber harvesting and mining. Those changes would include the two marine national monuments that are the Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atol, according to the Washington Post.
"It appears that certain monuments were designated to prevent economic activity such as grazing, mining and timber production rather than to protect specific objects," the memo read, according to the Post.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The horror! /s
More leaks.
All national forests and forested areas need to be opened to responsible logging.
Four reasons:
1. What other nations refuses to utilize their own natural resources.
2. Clearing ground prevents devastating wildfires
3. Two major disasters (Harvey and Irma) are going to require huge amounts of lumber to rebuild.
4. Trees are nothing but a slow growing crop.
I’d be good with breaking up the FDR memorial, selling it for scrap, and using the land for a public restroom.
>>”It appears that certain monuments were designated to prevent economic activity such as grazing, mining and timber production rather than to protect specific objects,” the memo read,
Worth saying again. Ya think!?
After one of these fires there is nothing to preserve and lord knows there is no beauty left.
Wildlife habitat is destroyed for a long time.
One other thought, go ahead and sue. The more these idiots sue the more money they need. Perhaps the money will dry up to such an extent that the litigations will be hampered.
Remember, the govt. has endless supplies of money and time to delay these suits making them more costly to the greenies.
Scale back Obama’s library to a mud hut.
Log it, graze it or watch it burn.
Why not anything relating to JFK and LBJ as well?
All national parks, monuments and forests should be done away with. These are the states’ responsibility.
designated to prevent economic activity such as grazing, mining and timber production
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and oil & gas production.....
Give it time.
Throw in the MLK. Which is even worse because it looks like a commie Mao piece.
I also could do without the Lincoln, and other sacred-cow personages.
In the past I’ve noted that the need for monuments to national glory increased as governance by constitutional means was supplanted by Arbitrary government.
Wasn’t Escalante the one Clinton enlarged at the behest of Indonesian coal interests?
Here, came right up in my first search.
The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff?
http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/indocoal.htm
***Grand Staircase-Escalante, ***
There are huge coal deposits in that area. Fifty years ago there were plans to put two mine-mouth coal fired electric generating stations there. Same for Burnham down on the Navajo Reservation in NM.
I just might add; Mine it, Dredge it, and fish it.
Use the money generated to pay down the national debt.
My gold butt is very happy about Gold Butte, if true.
Nevada is the top gold producing state in the nation.
MINE BABY, MINE
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