Clinton set the precedent for this with his Escalante National Monument in Utah. He did it with an Executive Order. “Stroke of the pen, law of the land, kind of cool.”
His purpose was to lock up an enormous amount of clean coal in order to please his corrupt pal in Indonesia.
Obama will do the same thing. They will be carefully chosen to block development of coal, oil, shale, or any other mining and energy. After all, he doesn’t really want us to become energy independent, does he?
He wants solar and windfarms so that his pals at GE can make a mint.