"expected to reshape federal land, water protections: Zinke on altering Nat. Monuments

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I simply hate this adminstration!!



Interior secretary recommends Trump alter at least three national monuments, including Bears Ears

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/24/interior-secretary-recommends-trump-alter-a-handful-of-national-monuments-but-declines-to-reveal-which-ones/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_monuments-3pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.eba6286a821f

By Juliet Eilperin and Darryl Fears August 24 at 5:46 PM

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How Zinke is advising Trump to alter national monuments
After a four-month review of 27 areas of federal lands and waters, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has announced his recommendations for President Trump. (The Washington Post)


Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended Thursday that President Trump alter at least three national monuments established by his immediate predecessors, including two in Utah, a move expected to reshape federal land and water protections and certain to trigger major legal fights.

In a report Zinke submitted to the White House, the secretary recommended reducing the size of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, as well as Oregon’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, according to multiple individuals briefed on the decision.

President Bill Clinton declared the 1.9 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante in 1996, while President Barack Obama designated the 1.35 million-acre Bears Ears last year. Cascade-Siskiyou, which now encompasses more than 113,000 acres, was established by Clinton shortly before leaving office and expanded by Obama in January.

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Yet his proposal takes direct aim at a handful of the nation’s most controversial protected areas out west, according to several individuals who asked for anonymity because the report has yet to be made public. Zinke, who had called for revising Bears Ears’ boundaries in an interim report in June, is recommending a “significant” reduction in its size, an administration official said.

The report also calls for changing the management rules for several sites, such as allowing fishing in marine monuments where it is currently prohibited, and would affect the boundaries of other monuments beyond the three officials identified Thursday.




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Alex Taurel, deputy legislative director at the League of Conservation Voters, speaks as activists rally in front of the Interior Department. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

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1. "But Trump's going to bring the revolution." Susan Sarandon.