Two national monuments are no longer up for review, Interior says. That leaves 25.
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Source: Washington Post
Two national monuments are no longer up for review, Interior says. That leaves 25.
By Darryl Fears July 13 at 3:33 PM
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Thursday that two national monuments in Washington and Idaho are no longer being considered for removal or reduction by the Trump administration.
In a statement, Zinke announced that the 195,000-acre Hanford Reach National Monument in south-central Washington and the 460,000-acre Craters of the Moon National Monument in southern Idaho “are no longer under review” as part of President Trump’s order in April that more than two dozen monument designations be reconsidered.
Hanford Reach was designated by President Bill Clinton in 2000. Craters of the Moon was established in the mid-1920s but greatly expanded by Clinton in 2000.
Both are popular monuments in their states, and their review was not as controversial as the one for Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, designated last year by President Barack Obama, and the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, designated by Clinton in 1996.
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