Trump says he will shrink Bears Ears National Monument, a sacred tribal site in Utah

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

By Juliet Eilperin and Darryl Fears October 27 at 2:34 PM

President Trump informed Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) Friday that he will shrink Bears Ears National Monument, a 1.35 million-acre protected area in southeast Utah that is prized by many tribal leaders but opposed by several state and federal Republican officials.

“I’m approving the Bears Ears recommendation for you, Orrin,” Trump told the senator in a phone call Friday morning, according to Hatch’s office, just before Hatch stepped onstage for an event on women in technology in Utah.

In late August, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended paring back the boundaries of Bears Ears and asking Congress to make less-restrictive designations within it, “such as national recreation areas or national conservation areas.” The monument, which contains tens of thousands of cultural artifacts, has become the most prominent symbol of controversy surrounding the 1906 Antiquities Act.

In the report, Zinke proposed cutting the size of between four and six national monuments established by Trump’s predecessors, and changing the way another six would be managed.

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[Bayard]

1. How is that legal?

Especially containing that many artifacts. Of course, nothing is sacred to tRump.

Don't know if it was a state or federal law, but when I lived in CA, I had a number of old Mono tribe grinding stones around my farm. My little farmhouse was 100+ years old, but any new construction in the area had to be a certain distance from any artifacts.

[Angry Dragon]

2. These stones--- did they lay on the ground and grain was ground in a hollow in the middle??

[Bayard]

6. Yes

Some in fairly big boulders. One right in my back yard.

The Mono natives would go up to higher elevation in summer in what is now King's Canyon and Sequoia Nat'l Parks. Then in the winter, they would travel down to our elevation, about 2,000 feet.

[keithbvadu2]

3. But it's not sacred to the 'right' religion.

But it's not sacred to the 'right' religion.

[Igel]

9. Shouldn't matter which religion it's sacred to.

It's land owned by a secular government.

Native American faiths are no more the "right" religion and less subject to the Establishment Clause than European or Asian faiths. One bias is no more meritorious than the other.

[jmowreader]

10. It probably is sacred to the "right" religion

My guess is, there's oil under the parts Trump is going to cut out of the Monument.

[turbinetree]

4. Again a "malignant normality" speaking to another "malignant normality" and there

f*cking Manifest Destiny BS..


“I’m approving the Bears Ears recommendation for you, Orrin,” Trump told the senator in a phone call Friday morning, according to Hatch’s office, just before Hatch stepped onstage for an event on women in technology in Utah. "

[L. Coyote]

5. He can't do it legally. SUWA will file suit and trump will lose.

https://twitter.com/SouthernUTWild

Link to tweet

[bluestarone]

7. getting very fustrated this asshole

does something every fucking day that fucks up our country

[logosoco]

8. I would like to laugh at these fools who put money ahead of the planet.

But instead, it makes me cry.

They put such a store on the Bible, which has a lot of ugly human stuff in it, but when it comes to the beautiful earth that we all came from and are connected to, they treat it like trash.

[WinkyDink]

11. "I like bears whose ears aren't monuments. #Yogi"