Hunters Sour On Interior Secretary

[struggle4progress]

September 6, 20173:57 PM ET
KIRK SIEGLER

... Zinke "definitely likes to espouse the ideals of Teddy Roosevelt," says John Sullivan, chairman of the Montana chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, who is featured in the ad. "He's not living up to them now."

In particular, the sportsmen are upset by Zinke's handling of a controversial review of protected national monuments and the scope of restrictions on how they are used. The review covers 27 protected monuments that are larger than 100,000 acres.

The secretary is not expected to recommend the elimination of any of the monuments. But a handful are slated to be shrunk in size, and the sportsmen say that reducing their boundaries means potentially more land for development and less for hunters ...

http://www.npr.org/2017/09/06/547687095/hunters-sour-on-trump-s-interior-secretary-over-public-lands-review

[elleng]

1. Good, let the hunters vs. developers fight.

[Warpy]

2. That's because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing any more than the rest of them

All he can think is that Teddy Roosevelt, were he alive now, would want to see oil pumps and fracking wells all over the national parks, hunters can just chase the game around them.