Interior Secretary to make proposal on Bears Ears monument in test for protected land

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Environment | Sat Jun 10, 2017 | 9:10am EDT
Interior Secretary to make proposal on Bears Ears monument in test for protected land
Bears Ears, the twin rock formations in Utah’s Four Corners region is pictured in Utah, U.S. December 19, 2016. Picture taken December 19, 2016. REUTERS/Annie Knox

By Valerie Volcovici | WASHINGTON

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is due to make a recommendation to the White House on Saturday on whether to rescind or resize Utah's Bears Ears monument, setting the tone for the administration's broader study of which lands protected by past presidents should be reopened to development.

The 1.35 million-acre monument, created by former president Barack Obama at the end of his term and named after its iconic twin buttes, is the first of 27 national monuments that will be evaluated by the Department of the Interior after President Donald Trump ordered the review in April.

The deadline for Zinke's recommendation on Bears Ears is June 10, though an Interior Department official did not say when the recommendation would be made public.

Trump had argued that previous administrations "abused" their right to designate national monuments under the U.S. Antiquities Act of 1906, and put millions of acres of land, mainly in western states, off limits to drilling, mining, logging and ranching without adequate input from locals.

Conservation groups, meanwhile, have called Trump's effort to alter existing national monuments illegal and irresponsible, and have vowed to challenge him in court.

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1. What is Needed is a Democratic Party Majority in the House for 2018

The GOP will do all sorts of damage to the United States until 2018.

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2. They will get shut down in the courts and try to change the laws to get to the gas and oil.

And if that isn't working, expect them to just break up the USA and steal everything.

Meanwhile, at some point Native Americans will rise up and reassert their rights to their lands if this monument is threatened.

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3. Just so most folks know.

There is at this time a large Uranium Mine a few miles south of Bears Ears. Understand the main vein of ore is pooping out. In and around the Ears were old small Uranium Claims from the Forties and Fifties that contain profitable Uranium ore deposits that were abandoned just because of Global demand. The winners are the Uranium Miners,the major looser is the Navajo Nation to the East as well as anyone else living down wind from this operation.