Zinke won't eliminate any national monuments

[DonViejo]

Source: Associated Press




By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 08/24/2017 11:27 AM EDT

BILLINGS, Mont. — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he's recommending that none of 27 national monuments carved from wilderness and ocean and under review by the Trump administration be eliminated. But there would be changes to a "handful," he said.

Zinke told The Associated Press that unspecified boundary adjustments for some monuments carved out of wilderness and ocean over the past four decades will be included in the recommendations he planned to give President Donald Trump on Thursday. None of the sites would revert to new ownership, he said, while public access for uses such as hunting, fishing or grazing would be maintained or restored.

He also spoke of protecting tribal interests and historical land grants, pointing to monuments in New Mexico, where Hispanic ranchers have opposed two monuments proclaimed by President Barack Obama.

Zinke declined to say whether portions of the monuments would be opened up to oil and gas drilling, mining, logging and other industries for which Trump has advocated.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/zinke-national-monuments-241988

[Blue_Adept]

1. Do not trust this man

Nor who he works for.

[niyad]

2. so, everything is being done in secret, and we are supposed to feel good? don't think so.

he is scum, as is every single person who willingly works for the orange madman.

[jpak]

3. Katahdin Woods and Water in Maine is safe for now

LePage is having cow....

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Yay!

[Kleveland]

4. Zinke is stinky.

Sorry, I am a three year old today!

[appal_jack]

8. Finky AND Stinky Zinke!

Happy to join you in toddler-level critique of these tantruming toddlers who hold the reins of power at the (hopefully brief) moment.





-app

PS - I read on FB that the "handful" of boundary "adjustments" comes to shrinking 21 National Monuments. Finky indeed.

[Delmette2.0]

12. LOL. That is perfect!!

[procon]

5. WTF does "unspecified boundary adjustments" mean?

One man gets to wipe out our national monuments by shrinking down their actual acreage and then sell off the land to his BFFs in the extraction biz?

[FSogol]

6. It means the Trump cronies want to cash in.

[DippyDem]

9. I don't trust anyone in the Dump Administration. NT

[klook]

10. "...oil and gas drilling, mining, logging and other industries"

That's who these assholes work for, not the public interest -- and sure as hell not anybody who cares about wilderness or the environment.

While we're busy chasing various shiny objects, engaging in circular firing squads, etc., the Trump administration is moving swiftly to strip these national monuments (and others to come, no doubt, as we'll as national parks, I predict) of monetizable national resources.

The damage could take generations to reverse. DO NOT trust these bastards.

[xxqqqzme]

11. Is there any precedent

for shrinking a national park or monument; selling off pieces or eliminating designated land named under the Antiquities Act?