Fate of 21 national monuments will land on Trumps desk this week

[riversedge]

Source: mcclatchydc






August 21, 2017 6:00 AM
WASHINGTON

The Trump administration this week is expected to release plans for potentially shrinking or revoking the status of 21 national monuments, setting the stage for a years-long legal battle that could pit the White House against Indian tribes, environmentalists and some western states.

Five of those monuments are in California — more than any other state — and two of the most contentious are in southern Utah: The new Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, established in 1996.

Several congressional Republicans have urged Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to reverse monument designations made by Barack Obama and other past presidents, calling them federal “land grabs” that restrict mining and energy development. But supporters say that these monuments help protect important landscapes and objects of history, including Native American antiquities.

“This is a ‘who’s side are you on?’ moment for Secretary Zinke and the Trump administration,” said Matt Lee-Ashley, who was an Obama-era Interior official and now works at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank....................................



Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article168037602.html#storylink=cpy

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It is a good article--with both sides voicing legal arguments.


.............If Trump attempts to yank monument status from one or more locations, environmental law organizations, tribal lawyers and affected state attorneys general are vowing to fight the decision all the way to the Supreme Court.....................





http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/athnua/picture168037597/alternates/FREE_768/Trump-Indians_01

Bullet holes can be seen on the face of the “Wolf Panel,” a Native American rock carving, in the Comb Ridge area of the new Bears Ears National Monument, in southern Utah, in March. Native Americans lobbied the Obama administration to designate the area as a national monument to better protect such antiquities. Utah Republicans are lobbying President Donald Trump to reverse or scale back the 1.3-million-acre designation. Stuart Leavenworth [e-mail]

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article168037602.html#storylink=cpy

[world wide wally]

1. Too bad he doesn't think these natural monuments are as beautiful as Confederate soldiers

[Blue Idaho]

2. Took the words right out if my mouth... nt.

[Julian Englis]

4. Exactly--tell tRump these are part of the European heriatge

[LudwigPastorius]

3. That Native American rock art is safe.

As long as those rocks have six-foot tall carvings of Trump on them.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11/01/this-is-the-portrait-of-himself-that-donald-trump-bought-with-20000-from-his-charity/?utm_term=.d611dd8df7f7

[alfredo]

5. That is one way to get even with those removing confederate statues.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. Try putting up a statue of General Lee

Then it's a monument President Clown would fight to save

[Little Star]

7. I really hate this administration.......

They are the scum of the earth.

[Dave Starsky]

9. I have never felt this level of visceral loathing.

A revulsion and detestation at an almost cellular level.

Not with Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1, or even Dubya. And each one was worse than the one before.

I just cannot fucking believe we are in this universe.

[Judi Lynn]

8. Putting anything on this thing's desk, other than his plate and spoon seems insane. n/t