The Mormons have been trying to get rid of a certain monument at Mountain Meadows for years...
Sorry, just had a tagline revelation.
My contention in regard to the Bundy case all along has been that the Fed Gov is just tightening it’s grip on public lands. Think about it. Almost since the time of the Louisiana Purchase most of the land has been almost worthless. Sure folks have made fortunes in mining and ranching but the value per acre for scores and scores of years has been “dirt”.
In recent years that value has started to rise for a number of different reasons. One other thing to rise has been public debt. IMHO, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to draw a straight line from one to the other. Since public land is what is the security on public debt, clear title has to be established. When that land largely had little value no one cared that ranchers eked out a minimal living on it. When it had little value and was pretty hard to get to no one cared what miners did.
The states out west are going to have a hard time wresting rights to it from the Fed Gov, IMHO.
Once upon a time there was the call of “tear down that wall”; now the best that can be called for is “tear down that monument”
Why only 21 years, what about the clinton first term land grabs?
Yes, they do.
It seems that any time the topic of removing monument status comes up the accusation is “you want to destroy” the monument.
It’s insulting to think that the good people of Utah can’t or won’t preserve these sites.
After watching the EPA’s fiasco in Colorado, I think the fed government shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near these places.
The law - very old - that permits presidents to, on their own authority, declare a “national monument” should be legislatively repealed/modified. A requirement for Congressional approval and Congressional legislation for each such declaration should be in the law/new law.