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PostSat May 06, 2017 3:04 pm 
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PostSat May 06, 2017 2:34 pm 
News release https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-releases-list-monuments-under-review-announces-first-ever-formal They are going back to 1996! The release contains the full list. Release in part: "Executive Order 13792 of April 26, 2017 (82 FR 20429, May 1, 2017), directs the Secretary of the Interior to review certain National Monuments designated or expanded under the Antiquities Act of 1906, 54 U.S.C. 320301-320303 (Act). Specifically, Section 2 of the Executive Order directs the Secretary to conduct a review of all Presidential designations or expansions of designations under the Antiquities Act made since January 1, 1996, where the designation covers more than 100,000 acres, where the designation after expansion covers more than 100,000 acres, or where the Secretary determines that the designation or expansion was made without adequate public outreach and coordination with relevant stakeholders, to determine whether each designation or expansion conforms to the policy set forth in section 1 of the order. Among other provisions, Section 1 states that designations should reflect the Act’s “requirements and original objectives” and “appropriately balance the protection of landmarks, structures, and objects against the appropiateuse of Federal lands and the effects on surrounding lands and communities.” 82 FR 20429 (May 1, 2017)."

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PostSat May 06, 2017 2:52 pm 
They must be going back that far because of the Utah representatives and to get the Grand Staircase-Escalante!!!!

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PostSat May 06, 2017 3:06 pm 
Added a wiki with links. Feel free to populate with images.

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PostSat May 06, 2017 3:51 pm 
While no president has ever canceled a monument declaration under the Antiquities Act, a few have removed some land from them, and never been challenged on it. I think that many Utahns were okay with a smaller Bear Ears Monument, so Trump could probably just shrink it down. But Grand Staircase Escalante has been around 20 years now, and a lot of business has developed around it, so I doubt he would do much there.

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PostSat May 06, 2017 4:34 pm 
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.... I think that many Utahns were okay with a smaller Bear Ears Monument, so Trump could probably just shrink it down...
I think you may be right, it will be an interesting fight. The local native nations supported the designation, so we will see. I have visited the area often, beginning in 1972, and worked there one year long ago in the late 1970s. An old friend helped start an advocate group there....https://www.friendsofcedarmesa.org They were instrumental in the designation last year. They will probably be on the front of any activity to change the designation.

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PostSat May 06, 2017 11:51 pm 
I thought we had a discussion on this in another thread here. There is no provision in the Antiquities Act of 1906 for UNdoing a National Park or National Monument. It would require an act of Congress. As mentioned, they can shrink the size, which was done repeatedly up on the Olympic Peninsula (prior to the creation of Olympic National Park in 1938.)

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PostSun May 07, 2017 6:56 am 
Thank the writers for separation of powers, checks and balances. Two of our guiding principles. One could also say that limited government is an equally important principle and the one under examination with the Monuments review. Gotta love Civics!

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PostSun May 07, 2017 11:27 am 

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PostSun May 07, 2017 7:08 pm 
indulge me here a minute: Your Congressmen (Congresswomen) and Senators don't really care much about the intrinsic value of wilderness. It's always the money that is the determining factor. Consider: Olympic National Park generated $398 MILLION dollars in "economic benefits" into the local economy over the last year. For every National Park, National Monument, or other federally-owned piece of public land, somebody has written up some kind of paper on the economic benefits generated from that piece of real estate. Most of them are pretty easy to find with a simple Google search (i.e., "Economic benefits of <insert National Park or Monument name here>") Granted, the methodology used for those reports and the numbers they arrive at might be open to debate, but even if you subtract HALF, that number for ONP last year would be $199 MILLION dollars - hardly something to sneeze at. Moreover, that money is generated year after year after year - the trend recently has been that those dollar numbers are increasing. If you go out and start punching holes in the ground for oil wells, or digging mines, you might generate a lot of money for a big mining or oil company, but in the end not a heck of a lot of that goes into the local economy, and sooner or later it's going to peter out because they'll tap the well dry or they'll run out of whatever ore they're digging up. (I'm excluding timber harvesting here because it's a renewable resource.) Bottom line: Short term = sure, some people would make some money with mines and oil wells. Long term = tourism revenue keeps the money coming in year after year after year. It's a no-brainer. Unfortunately you're up against Charles and David Koch, and Exxon-Mobil here, and the rest of their bastard compatriots, so they'll most surely come up with some misinformation campaign to try to refute fact.

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PostTue May 16, 2017 2:19 pm 
Spent the last couple days in Bears Ears. It is a marvelous area.filled with many canyons which have prehistoric dwellings in the 100's or inscriptions every mile or so. It is a beautiful area with a unique historic value. There has been a lot of misinformation given to locals by the administration and pressure groups and industry reps that hunting and 4x4 use will be banned. They are not banned in the monuments in the area already. The First Nations people in the area pushed for this to protect their sacred sites. The area has already been explored for oil and nothing significant found. There is only one outstanding oil lease and the owner intends to let it lapse. There is a need to protect the existing artifacts as most are just out in the open, BLM has been protecting by obscurity but that is no longer adequate since the Internet. People are posting GPS coordinates of sensitive sites and vandalism and theft follows. The tribes have agreed to help protect the area if it continues. Please write reps and Sens to stop this useless sacrilege being planned.

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PostTue May 16, 2017 3:37 pm 
I think the suspicion about bans is warranted. If the designations were accompanied by statutory bans on excluding user groups from areas currently accessed, there might be a lot less push back. As it is all hunters and 4x4 users have as of today is promises not encoded in the fine print of designations. Given the rachet behavior of bureaucracies, bans are not out of the question, IMO. The by any means methods seem to apply... get it set in stone while misleading opponents, perhaps not even intentionally...then after a while, exclude them one by one at the behest of internal or external pressure groups. End result, users excluded in spite of promises. Now I know folks will argue that they're not being excluded because they could still access via approved methods. But that's bait and switch, and not what was promised. What was promised was continuation of their existing access methods and uses.

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PostTue May 16, 2017 4:02 pm 
And exactly what evidence exists that any user groups are going to be excluded? If the 4x4 user group chooses not to follow the regulations, if they go in and rip the landscape up (as they did over on Oak Creek and some other areas), then the land managers are well within their statutory rights to exclude those user groups and ban them from using the area. It wouldn't be the first time that's happened. Hunting regulations change all the time. Nothing new there.

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PostTue May 16, 2017 4:58 pm 
The period for Bears Ears is only 15 days, it is clear they are trying to fast track this😒😒

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