Trump to shrink Utah monument by half, GOP staffer says [View all]
Source: The Hill
President Trump is planning to shrink the controversial Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by approximately half, a staffer for Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said.
Ron Dean, who leads Hatch’s central and eastern Utah operations, gave the figures to the state legislature’s Commission for the Stewardship of Public Land on Tuesday, saying the monument would be between 700,000 and 1.2 million acres, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.
Dean also confirmed that the Bears Ears National Monument, the other massive and controversial monument in Utah, is going to be shrunk to between 100,000 and 300,000 acres, from the current 1.35 million acres, according to the Tribune.
Hatch has been an outspoken advocate for significantly reducing both Grand Staircase — created by former President Bill Clinton — and Bears Ears, which was created by former President Barack Obama.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/360467-trump-to-shrink-utah-monument-by-more-than-half-gop-staffer-says
So the senator from Utah, thinks it is just fine a dandy to basically blackmail the people of the country when it comes to land protection and national parks--------------I guess he doesn't think the historical artifacts at Bears Ear mean anything to the Indigenous People
https://bearsearscoalition.org/proposal-overview/archaeological-significance/
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