Westerners fear Obama preparing monuments land grab

[n2doc]

Washington » Just south of Canyonlands National Park, the redrock wonders merge into a scrubland oasis with a peak that juts 11,000 feet into the sky. Mesas and buttes provide panoramic views and canyons, and ancient cliff dwellings offer a unique retreat.

It’s a region that holds sacred and historic value to the Navajo Nation, which has pitched Congress on creating the Diné Bikéyah National Conservation Area to protect the 1.9 million acres in San Juan County from development. But as with most things involving Congress, inaction has been the order of the day.

Even as supporters of a conservation area remain hopeful, they’re ready for Plan B: Asking President Barack Obama for a national monument.

Willie Grayeyes, and other members of the nonprofit Utah Diné Bikéyah, traveled recently to Washington to lobby Interior Department officials to designate the region north of the San Juan River and just outside the Navajo Reservation as a monument.


http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/57892050-90/bishop-congress-lands-local.html.csp

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

1. I love how the article generalizes with the term Westerners

More specific might be rural types in Utah, Nevada and Arizona.

[n2doc]

4. White Rural types

Sounds like the Navajo and other tribes want this to happen. I just posted the title as is, rankly I hope President Obama does designate them.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. In Salt Lake City 'westerners' means Mormons in Utah and Nevada

It's code speak. It's a better crafted version of the Bundy world view.

[spanone]

2. yea, just like he's taken their guns.

[msongs]

3. sounds like blazing saddles nt

[The Magistrate]

5. Sounds Like An Excellent Idea, Sir

I hope he does it.

[arcane1]

6. They chose an interesting title for the article, to say the least!

[2naSalit]

7. It's a story

out of Utah... of course they will play this as an offensive move by the president. The people they hate most after a black-skinned president and African Americans... are the Native Americans.

Bet they've been either soft-balling bundyfarm issues too or at least pretending nothing is going on down there.