National Parks
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.
GOP Ignores Cruz, Coburn on Fed. Land Grab
Cong. leaders tucked an expansion of nat'l parks, wilderness areas and drilling programs into a defense bill. The provisions are fiercely opposed by conservatives, who see it as a massive expansion of fed. land holdings that should have been dealt with in a stand-alone bill.
GOP Leaders Complicit In Other Bad Stuff Going On In Washington
"These measures have no place in a defense authorization bill and serve only to politicize and muddle the debate over the most important constitutional role that the federal government has: providing for the common defense."
Privatize National Parks
We can avoid future Obama shutdowns by privatizing the service that operates and manages parks. Why? Because government employees became unionized, entrenched, and over-extended.
A Healthy Show of Civil Disobedience
Taking their lead from the veterans who pushed through the World War II Memorial barricades, Americans nationwide are defying the federal gov't shutdown, tossing aside barriers to get to national parks and other federal lands that Obama has deemed out of bounds.
Mica: Arrest WWII Memorial Blockers
Rep. John Mica called for the firing of officials who ordered the barricade of the open-air World War II memorial to veterans on Weds., including the Secretary of the Interior and Nat'l Parks Director.