“Trump tells Sen. Orrin Hatch that he’ll shrink Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument”

Here from the Salt Lake Tribune.

Ethel Branch: “Native tribes deserve respect for work on the Bears Ears Monument”

In The Hill, here.

Zinke National Monuments Memo to President (Finally)

 

Here is the WaPo article, with a link to the memo.

Memo here:

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NYTs Op-Ed: “The Rush to Develop Oil and Gas We Don’t Need”

By Jim Lyons, here.

An excerpt:

Imagine the businessman Donald Trump putting his real estate up for sale when the market was near the bottom. That’s the equivalent of what President Trump is doing with the oil and gas on our public lands. His misguided move to increase production in a soft energy market is bad for government revenues, not necessary for national security and likely to damage natural resources that millions of Americans use and enjoy.

“Tribal Leaders Outraged over Zinke’s Effort to Eliminate Protections for Bears Ears National Monument”

Here:

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Updated Bears Ears Coverage

WaPo: “Interior secretary recommends Trump alter at least three national monuments, including Bears Ears

NYTs: “Interior Secretary Proposes Shrinking Four National Monuments

WaPo: “Interior secretary recommends Trump alter at least three national monuments, including Bears Ears”

Here.

What Did Zinke Just Do on National Monuments? Besides Passive Aggressively Demean Bears Ears Supporters, I Mean. (Now with “Rock Licker” Update)

Here is the press release that omits any actual recommendations. Here is the report summary that also says nothing.

But this excerpt asks us readers to assume that comments by supporters of national monuments should be ignored because they are merely statements “orchestrated” by “national . . . organizations”:

Comments received were overwhelmingly in favor of maintaining existing monuments and demonstrated a well orchestrated national campaign organized by multiple organizations.

Update: news coverage from earlier today quoting a Utah politician attacking national monument supporters as “rock lickers” — an excerpt:

Mike Noel, a Utah state representative, said that reducing or eliminating Bears Ears would be “a victory for our state.” Federal management of land in his state had constrained drilling, mining and grazing, he said, adding that Washington had no business setting aside so much land for the strict protection that monument status affords.

“When you turn the management over to the tree-huggers, the bird and bunny lovers and the rock lickers, you turn your heritage over,” Mr. Noel said.

WaPo: “Meet the nation’s most endangered monuments”

Here.

Matt Campbell on Bears Ears

Here.