In 2000, Bill Clinton created the roughly 52,000-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, proclaiming it an “ecological wonderland”. They include shrinking the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a 1.3 million-acre monument created by Obama to protect Native American antiquities. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ryan Zinke, who’s overseeing Trump’s review of 27 national monuments, has said only six should be left alone. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Clinton, flanked by Al Gore, designates the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument that towers behind them. In March, the AFRC filed a lawsuit in federal court arguing that Obama’s national monument expansion wasn’t just economically harmful but also fundamentally illegal.

Source: The Guardian August 20, 2017 17:13 UTC