Comment on 4 US monuments to be scaled back hold artifacts, key habitat

4 US monuments to be scaled back hold artifacts, key habitat

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's recommendation to shrink four sprawling national monuments in the U.S. West jeopardizes protections for ancient cliff dwellings, scenic canyons and habitat for endangered fish and threatened Mojave desert tortoises. The recommendations, revealed in a leaked memo submitted to the White House, would scale back two huge Utah monuments — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — along with Nevada's Gold Butte and Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou. The monuments encompass an area larger than Connecticut and were created by Democratic presidents under a century-old law.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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