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bucolic_frolic

(42,660 posts)
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 05:12 PM Jul 2016

GOP Platform Proposes To Get Rid Of National Parks And National Forests

Disposal of national parks, wilderness, forests, and other public lands is not the only way the GOP platform addresses conservation issues. Delegates also approved an amendment aimed at curbing the Antiquities Act of 1906, a law which has protected national monuments ranging from the Statue of Liberty to the Grand Canyon. The amendment requires “the approval of the state where the national monument is designated or a national park is proposed,” which would severely limit the President’s ability to protect at-risk places.

The delegates also passed language specifying that the Republican Party believes that the sage grouse, prairie chicken, and the gray wolf should be exempt from the protections of the Endangered Species Act. This not only gets into the weeds of local issues, but cuts corners in scientific species and conservation management regulations.

Party delegates will vote to adopt the draft document at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland next week.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/15/3798652/gop-platform-national-parks/

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GOP Platform Proposes To Get Rid Of National Parks And National Forests (Original Post) bucolic_frolic Jul 2016 OP
The stupidity UnFettered Jul 2016 #1
Welcome to DU, UnFettered. calimary Jul 2016 #5
The GOP should outright rename themselves as the party of discrimination, hatred, divisiveness, RKP5637 Jul 2016 #2
I think it is for drill baby drill Motley13 Jul 2016 #3
Yeah, and .... bucolic_frolic Jul 2016 #4
yet another reason barbtries Jul 2016 #6
They're pretty fucking awful. mountain grammy Jul 2016 #7
I often ask my animal welfare friends how they can vote Rebublican hamsterjill Jul 2016 #8
Those critters are probably interfering with the Bundys' grazing "rights" klook Jul 2016 #9
GOP Platform also calls coal a "clean" source of energy red dog 1 Jul 2016 #10
I have a perfect site for a luxury hotel .. DemoTex Jul 2016 #11
Actually, they would like to dam the grand canyon and sell lakefront property. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2016 #13
I wonder what the Havasupai would say about that FailureToCommunicate Jul 2016 #14
The paleface claims they earned it after Custer became a martyr. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2016 #19
No, TRUMP Resort & golf course Motley13 Jul 2016 #21
They have turned Reagan's "government IS the problem" into a cult. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2016 #12
Those Federal lands belong to all of us. WHEN CRABS ROAR Jul 2016 #15
I constantly run into ATV clods in Arizona ThoughtCriminal Jul 2016 #17
They believe in "taking it away from the gubmunt and giving it back to the people"... Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2016 #20
If I were a single issue voter, this would be my single issue. pamela Jul 2016 #16
Ah, the usual "return the parks to the states to manage" stuff. Beartracks Jul 2016 #18

calimary

(80,693 posts)
5. Welcome to DU, UnFettered.
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 06:38 PM
Jul 2016

This pisses me off royally, too. That's ALL our heritage, not just that of the oil companies!

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
2. The GOP should outright rename themselves as the party of discrimination, hatred, divisiveness,
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 05:28 PM
Jul 2016

recklessness and STUPIDITY!

Wanna join STUPID, join the GOP, the epicenter of stupidity in the US!

bucolic_frolic

(42,660 posts)
4. Yeah, and ....
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 06:25 PM
Jul 2016

Timber, Baby, Timber
Mine, Baby, Mine
Coal, Baby, Coal
Copper, Baby, Copper
Gold, Baby, Gold
Silver, Baby, Silver
McMansions, Baby, McMansions
Hotels, Baby, Hotels

That last one give a hint why Trump is the nominee?

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
6. yet another reason
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 06:47 PM
Jul 2016

not only to defeat trump, but to unseat enough republicans to actually effect some good for a change.

gawd i hate republicans.

hamsterjill

(15,214 posts)
8. I often ask my animal welfare friends how they can vote Rebublican
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 07:24 PM
Jul 2016

I never get a straight answer. This breaks my heart:

"The delegates also passed language specifying that the Republican Party believes that the sage grouse, prairie chicken, and the gray wolf should be exempt from the protections of the Endangered Species Act. This not only gets into the weeds of local issues, but cuts corners in scientific species and conservation management regulations."

klook

(12,134 posts)
9. Those critters are probably interfering with the Bundys' grazing "rights"
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 07:32 PM
Jul 2016

as well as those of other wannabe Ben Cartwrights.

red dog 1

(27,647 posts)
10. GOP Platform also calls coal a "clean" source of energy
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 07:41 PM
Jul 2016

These bastards are going to try to steal this election, using proven electronic voting machine tampering methods to "flip" votes from Democratic candidates to Republicans.

This cannot be allowed to happen again!

DemoTex

(25,370 posts)
11. I have a perfect site for a luxury hotel ..
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 07:58 PM
Jul 2016

[url=https://flic.kr/p/Ddwvs2][img][/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/Ddwvs2]

Get the doziers in. Knock down the flora. Put up a magnificent Ritz-Carlton resort. Build a runway capable of handling a business jet. Gate-out the riffraff. Make a fortune!



Photo by DemoTex
Toroweap - North Rim
Grand Canyon National Park
Arizona
2015

FailureToCommunicate

(13,989 posts)
14. I wonder what the Havasupai would say about that
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 08:10 PM
Jul 2016

Why oh why are there always residents in places we want for OURselves??

WHEN CRABS ROAR

(3,813 posts)
15. Those Federal lands belong to all of us.
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 08:14 PM
Jul 2016

Some people don’t like public land. They say it should be “taken back” by private owners. They fail to note that federal open space in the West was always public land. After the Native Americans, it belonged to the federal government. Following a 40-year frenzy of free giveaways under the Homestead Act, colored by colossal fraud, Presidents Benjamin Harrison and Teddy Roosevelt set aside some of the remaining federal land as national forests.

Proposals to transfer land from federal stewardship to state or county governments are thinly disguised attempts to facilitate private ownership or unfettered development by extraction industries.

The principal organization pushing for liquidation of federal public land is the American Legislative Exchange Council, receiving 98 percent of its funding from large corporations like Exxon Mobil, according to the Center for Media and Democracy.

Those who prefer more private land and freer reins on development have a lot of America to choose from. Even in my rural county in Oregon, where more than half the land is public, the private land that remains would accommodate many times today’s total population under current zoning.

Nationwide, two-thirds of all the land is private. If the grand open and public spaces of Wyoming or Oregon are not your cup of tea, then maybe the private expanses of Illinois, New Jersey, or any one of 38 states with nominal public land would be a better fit.

The national forests, along with other federal property, are the birthright and heritage of every American, now and yet to come.

Those who want to dismantle this extraordinary estate and take it for their own fail to recognize that this land serves us all. They fail to recognize that when they talk about taking our federal land away, they’re talking about taking my land away from me, and away from every single one of us

ThoughtCriminal

(14,009 posts)
17. I constantly run into ATV clods in Arizona
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 10:27 PM
Jul 2016

Who complain that the the Federal Government (aka Obama) won't let them ride their noisy, stinky, land destroying machines anywhere they damn well please. It's getting hard to find places where I don't have to listen to those obnoxious engines as they blast through trails at unsafe speeds. Never mind thousands of miles of BLM/national Forest land where they can ride anytime for free - they can't stand it that there are vehicle restricted trails and areas.

These imbeciles think that if the land was privatized, all the restrictions would be lifted and they could go anywhere. Never occurs to them and they seem to be unable to comprehend that all they would see is fences and "No Trespassing" signs.



 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
20. They believe in "taking it away from the gubmunt and giving it back to the people"...
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 02:45 AM
Jul 2016

They don't realize the "people" ain't THEM.

And these are the people who accuse US of being "useful idiots".

pamela

(3,469 posts)
16. If I were a single issue voter, this would be my single issue.
Sun Jul 17, 2016, 09:12 PM
Jul 2016

That probably seems superficial, compared to things like war, the economy, etc., but the National Parks and federal lands are my favorite part of America. I absolutely believe they are "America's best idea."

Beartracks

(12,761 posts)
18. Ah, the usual "return the parks to the states to manage" stuff.
Mon Jul 18, 2016, 01:07 AM
Jul 2016

But states' track records of public land ownership show a heavy tilt towards timber and energy extraction, NOT conservation and preservation.

Check out The Disappearing West:
https://www.disappearingwest.org/


Divesting Federal public lands -- even to States where it is still purportedly "public" -- is just another give-away to corporate interests. Not really a surprise, given that this plank is in the REPUBLICAN platform.

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