US Interior secretary begins Utah tour to eye monument sites

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Michelle L. Price and Brady Mccombs, Associated Press Updated 9:54 pm, Sunday, May 7, 2017





FILE - This May 23, 2016, file photo, shows the northernmost boundary of the proposed Bears Ears region, along the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah. The re-evaluation of the new Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is part of President Donald Trump's executive order calling for a review of 27 national monuments established by several former presidents. U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is set to start a four-day Utah trip Sunday, May 7, 2017, to assess whether the designation of 3.2 million acres of national monuments in the state's southern red rock region should be scaled back or rescinded. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP file, File)



SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with tribal leaders and elected officials in Utah on Sunday as he kicked off a four-day trip to the state to inspect two disputed national monuments protecting more than 3 million combined acres of the state's red rock country.

Zinke said at a news conference that he views the trip as a listening tour to ensure everyone has a voice and to determine if the monuments fit the federal law allowing presidents to declare the protections.
 
About 500 protesters carrying signs and chanting "Save our monuments, stand with Bears Ears!" demonstrated on the sidewalk outside the meetings in Salt Lake City.

The re-evaluation of the new Bears Ears National Monument on sacred tribal lands and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, created in 1996, is part of an executive order signed last month by President Donald Trump calling for a review of 27 national monuments established by several former presidents.



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U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke

[Docreed2003]

1. "A listening tour"....riiiiiiiight!

This guy is a Trump/Koch pawn who will recommend whatever his overlords tell him to recommend. These beautiful lands will be lost forever over man's greed and lust for natural resources. It makes me sick to think about such natural beauty being lost forever!

[furtheradu]

2. Boots. Wearin' boots with a city-boy suit

Bless the Protectors, with wisdom, strength & courage.

FDT

[Hortensis]

3. "Review" 27 national monuments estd by several presidents?

Hope this gets people excited in a way that selling off un-named open lands does not.

Btw, one guess what OUR second-largest source of revenue is.

Fees and leases of federally held lands, of course. The Koch types don't want to pay those either.

[randr]

4. This is the outcome of the "sagebrush rebellion"

Right wingers in the west have been trying to take control of public properties for decades. The State of Utah spends millions promoting tourism to visit the national treasures within its boarders while still lobbying the Feds to remove these monuments from the public trust. I have been boycotting Utah for this reason, but now we may want to visit to get one last look at our properties before it is corporitized.

[NCjack]

5. DEMs need to send a message: We will reverse what they do and

under compensate all commercial and private encroachments.

[DK504]

6. He'll probably go after all of Teddy Roosevelt's

parks from 100 years ago.

[ffr]

7. Those 27 sites would look better with fracking rigs on them, pumping toxins into the rivers

Way to go Rapa Nui Republicans. It worked out so well for Easter Island, now a deserted barren wasteland compared to what it was before them.

[mulsh]

8. observing the litigation this will engender will be edifying.

per this article legal experts are split 3/2 over presidential power to rescind National Monument designation. John Woo feels it's in a president's rights so there's that going against it.

"No President has ever abolished or revoked a national monument proclamation, so the existence or scope of any such authority has not been tested in courts," the report said. "However, some legal analyses since at least the 1930s have concluded that the Antiquities Act, by its terms, does not authorize the President to repeal proclamations, and that the President also lacks implied authority to do
so."

]http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/may/02/can-donald-trump-get-rid-national-monument-protect/