The Trump administration's national monuments 'review' is a sham

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The Trump administration's national monuments 'review' is a sham
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/24/the-trump-administrations-national-monuments-review-is-a-sham?CMP=share_btn_tw



The reasoning the president gave for the review, which could affect 27 national monuments, are demonstrably untrue

Brian Calvert is the editor-in-chief of High Country News, a Colorado-based magazine that covers the American West

Ryan Zinke
‘The review is transparent pandering to Trump’s new political allies and a cheap thrill for his Obama-hating base’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Thursday 24 August 2017 14.41 EDT
Last modified on Thursday 24 August 2017 15.25 EDT
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These are broad maps, and different well sites will produce different results, but few of the monuments sit atop these plays. Those monuments that do overlap with extractive plays won’t make a difference.

Despite Trump’s rhetoric, the US is drilling, digging, sucking and pumping the heck out of the West already – so much so that prices for natural gas, oil, and coal are all relatively low, thanks to a glutted market. So there really is no energy-related reason that monuments should be messed with.

How about public access to land? Generally speaking, monuments allow a broad range of use and access, including careful grazing and logging, the use of motorized vehicles on designated roads, hunting and fishing, and access to inholdings.


Expressly prohibited uses on monuments generally have to do with sale or leasing of land for mining and other extractive use, but are generally pretty open. Other prohibitions often include those against looting artifacts from public land –provisions few people would argue against. So Trump’s claim that monument status restricts access is false



And finally, there’s the notion that less protection will lead to more economic growth. This is easily disproven, as well. An analysis of 17 national monuments by Bozeman, Montana-based Headwaters Economics shows that the counties around monuments all continued to prosper after monument designation. Around Arizona’s Ironwood Forest national monument, which was designated in 2000 to protect the beauty of the Sonoran desert, jobs and income have continued to grow. ...................................

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He is destroying our country, every square foot of it.

But, that is what Walmart Greeters and auto mechanics and secretaries and 7/11 shift managers wanted, right?

Didnt America's working class, which most of us are part of, get together and decide the problem wasnt corporations paying us $7 an hour but immigrants doing work we would never do for pay we would never accept?

My list of working people is meant to show respect to working people but to question the intellect of so many WORKING people for going out of their way to not just destroy their country, but their jobs, economy etc.