The Trump administration on Thursday released its final management plans for a lands previously protected as national monuments.
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Tribal and conservation groups on Thursday condemned the Trump administration’s “unconscionable” final management plans for Utah lands previously protected as national monuments, which critics warn will open up the region to ranchers who want to graze livestock and companies looking to cash in on the area’s oil, gas, and coal.
In a joint statement Thursday, critics charged that the U.S. Interior Department should not have finalized the plans while President Donald Trump’s December 2017 decision to severely shrink the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments is still being challenged in federal court.
“It’s the height of arrogance for Trump to rush through final decisions on what’s left of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante while we’re fighting his illegal evisceration of these national monuments in court,” said Randi Spivak at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Trump is eroding vital protections for these spectacular landscapes.”
Several advocacy group leaders, including Conservation Lands Foundation executive […]
I wonder how many Republicans know how Trump and his cronies are destroying the world we live in, or if they do know, do they care?
I should add that Trump and his comrades are destroying the minds of the Republican supporters as well as the Earth itself. We intellectuals who understand this must inform the Republicans about how this is occurring through individual interaction as well as supporting the Progressive Democrats who can fix some of these problems as soon as possible by voting for someone who can beat Trump and beat all Republicans everywhere in every race at the polls.