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With new monuments in Nevada, Utah, Obama adds to his environmental legacy (LAND GRAB)
Washington Post ^
| 12/28/2016
| By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis
Posted on 12/28/2016 2:42:22 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
President Obama on Tuesday created new national monuments in a sacred tribal site in southeastern Utah and in a swath of Nevada desert, after years of political fights over the fate of the sites.
The designations further cement Obamas environmental legacy as one of the most consequential and contentious in presidential history. He now has invoked his executive power to create national monuments 29 times during his tenure, establishing or expanding protections for more than 550 million acres of federal lands and waters.
Environmental groups have praised the conservation efforts, but critics say they amount to a federal land grab. Some worry that the new designations could fuel another armed protest by anti-government forces inspired by the Cliven Bundy family, such as the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon this year.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Nevada; US: Oregon; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: agenda21; bearsears; bho44; bhoepa; bundy; bunkerville; cliven; clivenbundy; energy; goldbutte; landgrab; monuments; nationalmonuments; nevada; obama; trumptransition; un; unagenda21
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To: hinckley buzzard
...whole point was to keep energy development out of the Bears Ears tract.The nearby Natural Bridges area only has SOLAR power in use in all of the buildings; as seen in the lower portion of this picture.
The main attractions are the natural bridges, accessible from the Bridge View Drive, which winds along the park and goes by all three bridges, and by hiking trails leading down to the bases of the bridges. There is also a campground and picnic areas within the park. Electricity in the park comes entirely from
a large solar array near the visitors center. In 2007, the
International Dark-Sky Association named Natural Bridges the first International Dark-Sky Park, which is a designation that recognizes not only that the park has some of the darkest and clearest skies in all of the United States, but also that the park has made every effort to conserve the natural dark as a resource worthy of protection.
[5][6] To date, Natural Bridges has the only
night sky monitored by the NPS Night Sky Team that rates a Class 2 on the
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale, giving it the darkest sky ever assessed.
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12/29/2016 4:04:43 AM PST
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Red Boots
They e locked up all the green areas in these desert states that could possibly be lived in.Shucks; the Mormons had these LONG before the Feds even knew what was IN the area!!
They even have a lot of the BROWN areas!
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Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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