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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 10:15 am 
Matthew Daly, quoting Matt Anderson of the Sutherland Institute for the Billings Gazette wrote:
"It begs the question: Are these expansions more about ulterior motives like climate change, presidential legacies, corporate interests like outdoor recreation companies, or are they about antiquities?" Anderson asked.
That is a good question. To put this into context, Olympic National Park evolved from what was originally the "Olympic Forest Reserve", and later the "Mt. Olympus Monument" before it was "Olympic National Park, and changed in size several times. (In that case, however, the reasons were timber, timber, and timber.)

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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 10:57 am 
The same question could be asked of the shrinkages - whether (if they happen) they are about corporate interests and political legacies. Some of the people advocating shrinkage are hardly silent about the economic factors they claim are involved.

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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 11:16 am 
^ of that there can be no doubt, sir. up.gif this issue was previously discussed at great length in another thread here.

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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 4:21 pm 
When congress and the president designate monuments, little consideration for the concerns of the locals is given. The new monument in the state of Maine being a good example.

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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 7:36 pm 
Chico wrote:
The new monument in the state of Maine being a good example.
The Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was private property, gifted to the United States by its owner. Should "the locals" have had a veto?

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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 7:55 pm 
I do not know about Maine but I do know about Utah and New Mexico where Bears Ears, Escalante, and Rio Grande del Norte monuments are located and which are under the knife. In all these areas First Nations people are the primary sponsors of monument status and comprise a large percentage of "locals" to them the lands are sacred and they have volunteered to help in administration. Local nonnative people are split with some thinking there is employment in resource extraction but a substantial number dependent upon tourism. The areas have little mineral or timber resources and only a few marginal ranches. They age been told that fishing and hunting will be stopped by politicians, this is a lie both are allowed in the existing monuments and inholdings are preserved. There are numerous exploratory wells in the area but all but one lease has lapsed without production. The status change proposed is mostly a campaign promise made to local politicians. Most importantly these are National Monuments containing national treasures. Local interests are considered but do not trump national interest.

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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 8:01 pm 
Chico wrote:
When congress and the president designate monuments, little consideration for the concerns of the locals is given.
I don't buy that at all! First - almost all the lands designated as Nat. Monument have been, always, under federal ownership. Second - nearly always, the 'locals' have had an inordinate amount of influence on the management of those lands. They have for decades. Whether managed by the BLM or the USFS, the management in those areas have skewed local....rancher x and logger y were able to come into a local office, sit down with a decision maker, and obtain the resource decision THEY wanted! This is exactly the Problem! Any why, beginning a few decades ago, people in Cleveland, San Diego and Schenectady said to themselves..."wait a minute, I own an equal share of these lands...why does Joe Sheepherder get a bigger voice than I do?" Some in Congress still don't get this. All the 'State's Rights' and 'locals are being trod upon' is just blather....

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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 9:51 pm 
re: "locals" The Senator and Governor of the State of Washington fought like hell against the Olympic Forest Reserve and the Mt. Olympus National Monument and Olympic National Park, eventually reducing the size of what became Olympic National Park by quite a bit. I think you can find all the gory details in one of Carsten Lien's books.

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PostTue Sep 19, 2017 10:01 pm 
ditto.gif and Murray Morgans, Ruby el Hult, and many others.

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PostWed Sep 20, 2017 7:37 am 
Everything I have read indicates that new wilderness areas and parks approved by Congress do not get through unless the Senators and Representatives affected agree to support it. I'm sure there are exceptions to that on occasion through history, but they are rare. For national monuments created via the Antiquities Act, this doesn't apply because Congress is not involved. I think that it is still true in many Antiquities Act cases, but the exceptions get all the attention, rare though they are. In these cases, Presidents are responding to their supporting constituencies. Note that those constituencies can be local too. Bears Ears is strongly supported by local Native Americans, not just distant environmental groups.

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PostWed Sep 20, 2017 8:25 am 
jinx'sboy wrote:
Second - nearly always, the 'locals' have had an inordinate amount of influence on the management of those lands. They have for decades. Whether managed by the BLM or the USFS, the management in those areas have skewed local....rancher x and logger y were able to come into a local office, sit down with a decision maker, and obtain the resource decision THEY wanted!
Well, now it has swung the other way. Replace rancher x and logger x with enviro group x. Hell, one of the ones that was running an enviro group is now a district ranger! What more could you want? By the way, what about the laws that were in place regulating rancher x and logger x? Those still had to be followed. When broken, there were some investigations with early retirements and resignations--some of the more recent cases had underlings fined and going to jail but that is rare. Examples, which I do not see in YOUR post are the timber scandal on the Olympic NF in the 1980s, when boundary tags were moved, timber markers in Alabama selling or trading the secret tree marking paint, and the rigged log scaling operation on the Colville NF in the 1980s. There are rumored to be more episodes, like a district ranger on the Klamath NF not following requirements for selling timber sales. Audits catch these little things. As a local, I am of the opinion that we have no say. Your local enviro group with the constant threat of a law suit are the overseers and determine what takes place. After all, they "read papers" and can always find one that was written about a Southern Oregon Forest to support what they want done here in the rainy part of our state. shakehead.gif StatementsS like "We want to see the forest restored." are the drivers of no management. Science and experiences are ignored and the side with the most lawyers is running things. This fire season should be a wakeup call, but it won't be. I'm waiting for the lawsuit to be filed about the "timber grab" along highway 410, where it was decided to thin live trees and cut down the snags to make a defensible fireline. And yes, my ears close and my eyes glaze over when I hear one of my neighbors lapse into the UN article 21 or whatever it is, but they still should be listened to when it comes to managing our local forests. You cannot tell me that somebody in the other Washington understands how our forest works and the ecosystem better than the folks who grew up hunting, fishing, camping and logging in it. They don't want to destroy it because they live in it. I would imagine that the "locals" in Utah are afraid. Someday maybe you'll be afraid of losing your house, your livlihood, and having to move involuntarily to a new environment. Nobody is doing anything to lessen those fears. Tourism work is not the answer for everyone. Tourist work is just as cyclical as logging and lumber mills, and for less pay. I am also of the opinion that monument areas and National Parks are oversized. Not only in official boundaries, but in what might affect them. We must have buffers, and then the buffers are buffered, and pretty soon the park is expanded and more people are unable to hunt or hike (without turning in their exact plans). Spontaneity, which is an experience more might want to participate in, is extinguished. Anybody got the answer? I sure don't. Ready for the usual insults. moon.gif

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PostWed Sep 20, 2017 12:41 pm 
jinx'sboy wrote:
I don't buy that at all!
Go have a chat with the folks in Maine!

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PostWed Sep 20, 2017 5:56 pm 
Of the public comments received 98% were in favor of saving the monuments with 55% specifically mentioning Bears Ears. Utah residents were 88% in favor of Bears Ears 10% against 2% neutral. Several lies are in Zinke's report specifically stating that in Rio Grande del Norte that roads were closed and ranchers left because of road closures. This is false I drove all the roads in this monument this spring and they were open and ranchers were there. One road in the northern section is closed but it was destroyed in a flash flood ten years ago before monument status. I walked it and it was pretty trashed compleatly washed out with loose rock above and below.

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PostWed Sep 20, 2017 7:53 pm 
Chico wrote:
Go have a chat with the folks in Maine!
My understanding in Maine is that a very wealthy family bought, over time, some 80,000 acres. Then, donated it to the Federal Govt....along with $40 million or so in cash and commitments to fund initial operations, etc. Any other Maine resident - or anyone else - could have bought that land. But did NOT. Willing seller to willing buyer... Now, Maine residents, who I'd bet are of the rugged Northeastern "don't tell what I can do with my land" mold, are upset. Apparently....you can do with you land what you want....EXCEPT donate it to the Feds for any sort of reserve. Here's a similar scenario: Beginning in the 1920's and continuing up until 2001, the John D Rockefeller family has donated many tens of thousands of acres in what has become Grand Teton Nat. Park, the Rockefeller Parkway and adjacent Preserve, and the National Elk Refuge. Amid MUCH local and national controversy. Thank goodness for future minded souls who have chosen to do good with their wealth.

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