-PJ
Posted on 05/19/2014 1:12:55 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama on Wednesday will designate nearly half a million acres in New Mexico as a national monument, the latest in a series of executive actions intended to improve environmental protections of federal lands.
The president will sign a proclamation establishing the Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument, the largest such designation of his presidency, during a ceremony at the Department of the Interior, the White House said Monday.
It will be the 11th time the president has established a national monument during his term, and the largest designation in terms of land mass during his presidency.
By contrast, former President George W. Bush established only four national monuments during his eight years in office.
The site will include areas used as training sites for the Apollo astronauts, as well as the Butterfield Overland Mail Trail, along which passengers and mail traveled toward San Francisco in the mid-1800s.
Press secretary Jay Carney touted the economic benefits of the designation, which is expected to boost tourism to the region.
"A recent, independent study found that a new national monument could generate $7.4 million in new economic activity annually from new visitors and business opportunities while preserving access for sportsmen, ranchers and recreational users," Carney said. "This signing is part of our larger weeklong focus on helping businesses invest here in America to further grow our economy and create jobs."
The president will press that case during a meeting Tuesday with business leaders at the White House and at an event at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Thursday.
But the White House might face a tough sell with New Mexico ranchers in the area, who have argued a nearly identical legislative proposal by the state's Democratic senators — Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich — was too expansive.
Obama's accelerated efforts on federal land protection coincide with the return of counselor and renowned environmentalist John Podesta — former chief of staff to President Clinton — to the White House.
After Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, Clinton used his executive authority to implement environmental protections for federal lands, including seven sites during his last month in office.
What does Gov Martinez (R-NM) have to say about this?
-PJ
Do you have any evidence this land is presently owned by the state of NM?
I’d wager a significant amount it’s presently BLM land.
IOW, the federal gov took it out of one pocket and put it in the other.
From 2010: “Obama to Create New National Monuments?”
http://newwest.net/topic/article/obama_to_create_new_national_monuments/C564/L564/
Gotta secure the collateral for all the Chinese loans.
Wow, I’ve got a tag along. Sherman Logan needs proof that states own land, perhaps that their very purpose is to oversee the land of USA. Unlike DC which is was specifically created to give the USG/Federal an area of land to govern.
“did a quick search - here’s what the ranchers are up against:”
More simply, what we here in NM are up against is an epic abundance of Obama True Believers. I have read other threads about locust swarms in various places. In NM we have swarms of libtards who HATE ranchers, farmers, miners, loggers, oil men, and every other productive individual scratching a living from the earth. This ‘monument’ will become a highway for illegals to enter the state without fear of the border patrol, who will effectively be restricted in their patrols. NM is also a state which gives drivers licenses to illegals (you are asked if you want to register to vote at the same time), and it is also illegal to ask for ID at the polls.
FUBO!!!!
Had ENOUGH Yet ?
Point being, even for preservation purposes, this monument mania has reached diminishing returns. I have been to this area of New Mexico too, and it is fine indeed, but not unlike another million square miles of New Mexico which apparently does not need "protecting."
Let the next president call "enough."
” - - - the White House might face a tough sell with New Mexico ranchers in the area,-—”
Looks like another job for Feudal Lord Reid’s Rustlers!
Lemme see now, B. Hussein created this New Mexico diversion to distract form his VA Hospital wait-till-they-die-waiting death panels.
Yup, one scandal requires one diversion a week!
Barrys got stuff Lined Up waiting for the proper moment so spring into “action to cover his skinny rear end in One SCANDALOUS MESS after another
Hes got another three plus years of them on the drawing board.
Well to be completely forthrght here..... they are ALL valerie jarrett’s Inventions.
a smidgen here, a smidgeon there!!!
The “Lizard” crawls in,
The “Lizard” crawls out,
The “Lizard” has
Corruption on her snout!
Only the ranchers & property owners in that area.
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