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President Trump Was Right To Revise National Monument Boundaries
- Antiquities Act
- balance
- Bears Ears
- boundaries
- Bureau of Land Management
- Cascade-Siskiyou
- Clinton
- Department of the Interior
- environmentalists
- Escalanted Canyons
- executive orders
- farmers
- federal overreach
- Gold Butte
- Grand Staircase-Escalante
- Indian Creek
- Kaiparowits
- land use
- mineral resources
- National Monuments
- National Parks
- natural gas
- natural resources
- Obama
- oil
- President Trump
- private land
- public land
- ranchers
- Rep. Rob Bishop
- Secretary Ryan Zinke
- Shash Jaa
- uranium deposits
- Utah
Democratic Presidents used their purported authority under the Antiquities Act to lock-up millions of acres of land of dubious historical or environmental value. President Trump’s revision of the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments strikes the right balance between protection and development.
