President announced plans Monday in Utah to shrink two sprawling Utah national monuments

[livingston]

Trump dramatically SHRINKS Bears Ears National Monument and slashes another by half in the name of 'states' rights' as he says 'public lands will once again be for public use'

• President announced plans Monday in Utah to shrink two sprawling Utah national monuments by nearly two-thirds after Obama expanded them
• Trump plans to shrink Bears Ears National Monument by nearly 85 percent and reduce Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by almost half
• Move is being called illegal by environmental groups and will be opposed by some, but not all, Native American groups
• Trump said on his way out of Washington that his decision is a victory for 'state's rights'
• A Navajo Democratic county commissioner told Trump's audience that expanding the monuments had put her ancestral lands off-limits
• Riot police dispersed protesters outside a Mormon charity food-distribution center

President Donald Trump unveiled a plan Monday in Utah to dramatically scale back two national monuments – calling it an important move for 'states' rights.'

'Some people think that the natural resources of Utah should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in Washington. And guess what? They're wrong,' he said in the cavernous Utah Capitol Rotunda in Salt Lake City.

'The families and communities of Utah know and love this land the best. And you know the best how to take care of your land. You know how to protect it, and you know best how to conserve this land for many, many generations to come,' he said.

'Your timeless bond with the outdoors should not be replaced with the whims of regulators thousands and thousands of miles away. They don't know your land, and truly they don't care for your land like you do.'



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[Jmac00]

The news was saying the indigenous Indians are pissed because they were not consulted at all ??? so they got more land, and yet they are still pissed

 

[livingston]

The news was saying the indigenous Indians are pissed because they were not consulted at all ??? so they got more land, and yet they are still pissed

Trump's move to shrink the sprawling Utah national monuments by nearly two-thirds overall has drawn howls from environmentalists and some tribal leaders, who call the move illegal and another affront to Native Americans.

San Juan County, Utah Commissioner Rebecca Benally, a Navajo native, spoke Monday before Trump and said she was outraged by the establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument 'in our own backyard.'

Benally, a Democrat, said her people had been denied access to 'an area larger than Rhode Island and Delaware' where they had harvested medicinal plants and harvested wood for centuries.

She cast the battle over Bears Ears as a struggle between natives who want to stay connected to their ancestral lands and bureaucrats who want to control them.



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[livingston]

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President Obama set aside 1.3 million acres at Bears Ears on December 28, 2016, just days before leaving office. That is an area slightly larger than the entire state of Delaware. However, the Antiquities Act of 1906 was never intended to be used that way. The intent was to protect specific sites of historical, cultural and/or archaeological significance from destruction. Consequently, the Act provides that the land set aside should be as small as practical to provide such protection. What Obama did was clearly an overreach intended only as a payback to environmental groups for their support. The sites referenced have not heretofore been harmed or threatened prior to the land grab. They may still receive Federal protection as monuments but the seizure of 1.3 million acres is excessive. Wyoming and Alaska are exempt from the Act. For those two states, Congress must approve any land seized larger than 5,000 acres. Utah should have the same protection from overreach.

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[dubleuhb]

So I guess the new narrative they'll try is Trump is a racist who hates native Americans.

 

[Jmac00]

if Im not mistaken, all Trump did was give the land back to the states? He relinquished Federal control, why is this a bad thing ? I don't get it

 

[dubleuhb]

if Im not mistaken, all Trump did was give the land back to the states? He relinquished Federal control, why is this a bad thing ? I don't get it

Simple, because Trump did it.