Drinking Water for Millions Is Threatened as Trump Targets National Monuments
About 83 percent of water passing through public lands has no other protection besides the monument designations.#NationalMonuments
#Environmentalism #NationalMonuments #TakeAction Protect our marine national monuments | NRDC
https://action.nrdc.org/letter/4441-marine-monuments-100225
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument today (Pakoon Springs). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/para/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/para/learn/historyculture/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/para/planyourvisit/pakoon-springs-trail.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments Image credit National Park Service #clouds #history #geology #basin #springs #fall #nationalmonument
DOJ opinion clears way for Trump to eliminate national monuments. #NationalMonuments #EnvironmentalProtection #Conservation
In March, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order demanding that the negative parts of American history be excised from public monuments. A May follow-up order from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum led to QR codes being displayed in national parks that asked visitors to snitch if they came across information that was negative about past or living Americans. Now volunteer preservationists from Safeguarding Research & Culture and the Data Rescue Project have launched a campaign, Save Our Signs, asking people to upload photos of signage on public lands in order to preserve them if they're removed. @404mediaco explains more about the campaign. “To maintain a democratic society, it is essential for the electorate to be well-informed, which includes having a thorough awareness of our historical challenges,” Lynda Kellam, a founding member of the Data Rescue Project, says. “This project combines our expertise as data librarians and preservationists and our concern for telling the full story of our country.”
#USHistory #TrumpAdministration #Histodons @histodons #History #NationalParks #NationalMonuments
Our public lands are facing threats from potential large-scale sales, increased resource extraction, and reduced environmental protections. Muir Woods National Monument.
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#publiclands #hiking #keepitpublic #nationalforests #nationalmonuments #muirwoods
Muir Woods National Monument, California. March, 2015. 📷 Fujifilm X-T1 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞 16 mm – 1/25″ – f/4 – ISO 1600 🏷️ #Photography #NationalMonuments #Landscapes
"The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in Las Cruces [New Mexico] is one of six national monuments Interior Department officials have identified to lose federal protections (...)
Those federal protections prevent private companies from exploiting the monuments for minerals, oil and gas or other commodities."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-organ-mountains-nm-list-221630603.html
#conservation #NationalMonuments #USA #NewMexico #wildlife #nature
#Trump officials consider shrinking 6 #NationalMonuments in the West
#InteriorDepartment officials are considering scaling back the boundaries of national monuments in the West to encourage #energy development on #PublicLands.
Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument today (Tassi Ranch). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/para/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/places/tassi-ranch.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments Image credit National Park Service #clouds #noclouds #ranch #history #green #spring
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From Reuters.com: Trump can abolish national monuments, US Justice Department says
https://www.aol.com/trump-abolish-national-monuments-us-000302129.html
WH spox Harrison Fields said #Trump “shocked” the energy industry back to life & called on the Senate to “liberate our federal lands & waters to #oil, #gas, #coal, #geothermal, & #mineral leasing.”
…With the opinion, the Trump admin is saying it has the power to abolish or shrink #NationalMonuments that have not yet been ratified by #Congress, said John Leshy, a University of California College of the #Law professor who served as #Interior’s solicitor general in the #Clinton admin.
The opinion cites #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts in his 2021 response to a denial of certiorari in Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Assn v. Raimondo that he’d be interested in hearing a challenge to the #AntiquitiesAct.
Roberts wrote that the act’s use has been “transformed into a power without any discernible limit to set aside vast & amorphous expanses of terrain,” & the court may have an opportunity to consider the issue in the future.
“We conclude that the #AntiquitiesAct permits the President to alter a prior declaration of a national monument, including by finding that the ‘landmarks,’ ‘structures,’ or ‘objects’ identified in the prior declaration either never were or no longer are deserving of the Act’s protections,” the #DOJ opinion issued May 27 concludes.
The slip opinion that was made public Tuesday reverses & disavows a 1938 #DOJ opinion, which the federal government has relied upon to determine that monument designations are irrevocable.
https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1403101/dl
It specifically challenges #Biden’s 2025 creation of #Chuckwalla & #SáttítlaHighlands #NationalMonuments in #California. Both received broad support from area tribes, the #state, & California’s congressional delegation.
#Trump has been largely hostile to large #NationalMonuments & has taken steps to consider allowing #drilling & #mining companies to access minerals within them.
In his first term, Trump shrank Utah’s Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, which were created by fmr #Democratic presidents Barack #Obama & Bill #Clinton. President Joe #Biden re-expanded those monuments. Both are now subject to litigation brought by Utah….
#Trump #DOJ Outlines Legal Justification to Abolish Monuments
A US president’s power to create & undo #NationalMonuments under the 1906 #AntiquitiesAct is among the White House’s “most sweeping unilateral powers,” the DOJ said in a slip opinion.
The opinion forms the DOJ’s rationale for abolishing national monuments, many of which have been declared by presidents to protect large swaths of #PublicLand from development.
#law #PublicLands #conservation #drilling #mining
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/trump-doj-outlines-legal-justification-to-abolish-monuments-1
#DJT free to abolish declared #NationalMonuments he sees fit if created by previous Presidential orders according to his legal #Counsel of current #DOJ minions...
Concern for monuments like the Rio Grande del Norte and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks have been heightened since reports emerged in April that the U.S. Department of the Interior was considering reducing the area and protected status of six national monuments — including the OMDP, which comprises nearly 500,000 acres.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_9a4280d0-80cd-460d-a814-417ef8290258.html
Evergreen huckleberry and Douglas’ iris from Trinidad Head today. The California Coastal National Monument is the backdrop for these views. For more information https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/california-coastal and https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=botany_jps and #publiclands #photography #phenology #nationalmonuments #ocean #flowers #huckleberry #iris #coast #california Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs
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