Recommended shrinking or opening 10 national monuments to logging, mining, or fishing

[Assembler]

Trump is quietly dismantling Obama's biggest legacy
Recommended shrinking or opening 10 national monuments to logging, mining, or fishing
Most important environmental rules that Trump is reversing - Business Insider
What the rule does: Obama used the Roosevelt-era Antiquities Act — which allows presidents to preserve "objects of historic or scientific interest" as national monuments — to protect roughly 4 million acres of land and several million square miles of ocean.
Current status: In September, the White House recommended changes for 10 monuments including Bears Ears, Utah, Gold Butte, Nevada, and Cascade-Siskiyou, which straddles Oregon and California. Those changes include either shrinking their size or opening them up to "traditional uses" like mining, timber farming, drilling, and commercial fishing.

 

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[Assembler]

Trump is being sued to stop him from shrinking Bears Ears national monument by 85 percent. Who will win?
By Todd A. Curry and Rebecca A. Reid December 11
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-percent-who-will-win/?utm_term=.17960c4617ea
On Thursday, President Trump announced that he would slash the size of Utah’s newest national monument, Bears Ears, shrinking by 85 percent land that President Barack Obama had declared protected in 2016. In response, five Indian tribes sued over Trump’s move in federal court. The tribes claim significant ancestral ties to this land and oversee the area in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management. They argue that although Congress delegated power to the president under the Antiquities Act to designate national monuments, it did not give the power to revoke them.

It may be a good idea to pay attention to what the Indian tribes are taking about in this case.

Zinke, House GOP escalate feud with Patagonia over shrinking of national monuments
By Matthew Daly, The Associated Press
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/11/ryan-zinke-gop-patagonia-feud/
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and House Republicans have escalated their feud with Patagonia after the outdoor retailer told Americans that President Donald Trump “stole your land” in his move to shrink two sprawling Utah national monuments.

 

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[Clay Diggins]

In March 1909 Mount Olympus National Monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt [Proclamation No. 869, 35 Stat. 2247] embracing 610,560 acres. The primary purpose was to provide a refuge for Roosevelt elk (Personal pride? Historic or scientific interest? You decide.)

In May 1915 President Woodrow Wilson reduced the size of Mount Olympus National Monument by approximately one-half [Proclamation No. 1293, 39 Stat. 1726]. That was the second time in six years the Monument was reduced in size by a President.

There have been quite a few reductions in the size of Monuments by Presidents. The last time was when Kennedy reduced the size of Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. 13 size reductions Proclaimed by every sitting President until Johnson.

This isn't new. It isn't illegal. Presidents make Monuments by Proclamation. They change Monuments by Proclamation. What's the big deal?

Congress has used its authority to abolish or to remove acreage from national monuments on several occasions. They have removed 24 National Monuments not counting the one's they changed to National Parks.

How many of you have even been to Bears Ears or Escalante? The Antiquities Act requires that any reservation of land as part of a monument be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects of historic or scientific interest to be protected.

Bears Ears? Really?

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[Assembler]

In March 1909 Mount Olympus National Monument was established by President Theodore Roosevelt [Proclamation No. 869, 35 Stat. 2247] embracing 610,560 acres. The primary purpose was to provide a refuge for Roosevelt elk (Personal pride? Historic or scientific interest? You decide.)

In May 1915 President Woodrow Wilson reduced the size of Mount Olympus National Monument by approximately one-half [Proclamation No. 1293, 39 Stat. 1726]. That was the second time in six years the Monument was reduced in size by a President.

There have been quite a few reductions in the size of Monuments by Presidents. The last time was when Kennedy reduced the size of Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.

This isn't new. It isn't illegal. Presidents make Monuments by Proclamation. They change Monuments by Proclamation. What's the big deal?

How many of you have even been to Bears Ears or Escalante? The Antiquities Act requires that any reservation of land as part of a monument be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects of historic or scientific interest to be protected.

Bears Ears? Really?

Heavy Pans

Excellent points you make Clay Diggins and thanks for posting. Yep it has be done before. Hope the money trail comes out on where it is all coming from.

 

[Clay Diggins]

Sigh... Mandatory Survey spew:

Metes-and-bounds surveys are required to define the boundaries of irregular tracts which are nonconformable to legal subdivisions. This type of survey ordinarily involves the establishment of the boundaries of claims, grants, or reservation, such as mineral claims, small-holding claims, private-land grants, forest-entry claims, national parks and monuments, Indian reservations, lighthouse reservations, trade and manufacturing sites, homestead claims in Alaska, etc.

It's everywhere. Like mud.

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[N-Lionberger]

I have been to Escalante

 

[Clay Diggins]

I have been to Escalante

So have I, many times since I was a little kid. That hwy 12 is fun. Always has been even before the Monument was declared in 1996. In fact about the only thing different along that Hwy since the Monument was declared is the displaced towns and settlements, closed roads and the camping fees and restrictions.

I probably hiked 200 - 300 miles in Escalante before the Monument was declared. Same trails, same views but no parking problems at the trailhead like now. Seems attracting more people and charging more money is how Monuments preserve the Public's lands?

Ever wonder what goes on in the other 1.9 million acres that don't have trails?

Heavy Pans

 

[Assembler]

Sigh... Mandatory Survey spew:

Metes-and-bounds surveys are required to define the boundaries of irregular tracts which are nonconformable to legal subdivisions. This type of survey ordinarily involves the establishment of the boundaries of claims, grants, or reservation, such as mineral claims, small-holding claims, private-land grants, forest-entry claims, national parks and monuments, Indian reservations, lighthouse reservations, trade and manufacturing sites, homestead claims in Alaska, etc.

It's everywhere. Like mud.

SEPA Pans

Just try doing a metes-and-bounds-surveys-nonconformable-to-legal subdivisions today.......LOL.

 

[Clay Diggins]

This is the problem with "information" supplied by a creation not created to inform. The truth and the facts don't matter to a SEPA.

Metes and Bounds

Lode claims. You must describe lode claims by metes and bounds beginning at the discovery point on the claim and include a tie to natural objects or permanent monuments including:

(1) Township and section survey monuments;

(2) Official U.S. mineral survey monuments;

(3) Monuments of the National Geodetic Reference System;

(4) The confluence of streams or point of intersection of well-known gulches, ravines, or roads, prominent buttes, and hills; or

(5) Adjoining claims or sites.

Official Metes and Bound Surveys by a certified federal surveyor not conforming to legal subdivision.


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[Assembler]

Update:
If we shrink national monuments, science will suffer
Badass crocodile bones are at risk.
https://www.popsci.com/utah-national-monuments-research
By Ellen Airhart
The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology is suing to defend Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments in Utah. They’re trying to protect more than 400 research sites, where scientists have found thousands of important fossils–including Diabloceratops, one of the oldest known triceratops and David Polly’s personal favorite. When Polly became the president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, he never expected that filing lawsuits would be part of the gig.
“We’re primarily a scientific organization,” he says. “We have a scientific conference, we have a scientific journal. But part of our organization’s mission is developing policies and best practices and advocating for vertebrate fossils.”

 

[Assembler]

This is the problem with "information" supplied by a creation not created to inform. The truth and the facts don't matter to a SEPA.

Metes and Bounds


Official Metes and Bound Surveys by a certified federal surveyor not conforming to legal subdivision.


Heavy Pans

After a nationwide, 18-year moratorium on mineral surveys due to a misunderstood law, an Arizona surveyor conducts what may be the first of many mineral surveys in the United States.
The completed mineral survey plats and notes were submitted to the AZBLM for review. They wanted their in-house resources to redrawn the plats so they could use them to create a current drafting standard for mineral surveys. The notes were compared to the 1973 and 2009 manuals and other approved mineral surveys. The plats and notes were refined through the review process.

On February 8, 2012 I finalized and signed the mineral survey. Steve Hansen, the BLM chief cadastral survey for the Arizona district, officially signed the plats and notes on February 10, 2012. I wrote this article to mark this historical event and to note that mineral surveys have been reactivated. (There is still a moratorium on the patent process.)

Yep this is the guy this one was referring to in the past thank you for the link Clay Diggings.
Not sure about the "Reactivated" part as that type of 'Survey' never went away. The Funding for if may have gone away is the real question.
What was the cost and research time on this? Any other details?

Delegation of Authority to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality for New Source Performance Standards
A Rule by the Environmental Protection Agency on 02/13/2004
https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...ironmental-quality-for-new-source-performance

 

[Assembler]

How does "SEPA" have anything to say about a "Mineral Survey" that "Recognizes the boundaries of the Land being surveyed"? Please inform us all.

In fact if it effects "Mineral entry" it can be taken as a form of 'Trespass'

 

[Assembler]

Tribes: Monument co-management proposal is slap in the face
• By felicia fonseca, associated press
Tribes: Monument co-management proposal is slap in the face - ABC News
The president's proclamation on Bears Ears National Monument also contained a little-known plan that changes the makeup of a tribal advisory commission for the remote monument filled with canyons, plateaus, rivers and rust-colored rock formations. It adds a county commissioner who is among the minority of Navajos to support Republicans in peeling back protections for the land.
The new commissioner will have the same authority as the group's five other members, all representatives of tribes.

 

[Assembler]

Protesters Call National Park Plan for Utah Monument a Ploy
Environmental groups are blasting a legislative proposal by U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart that would create a small national park within the recently downsized Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
Dec. 12, 2017
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-park-proposal-in-utah-monument-called-a-ploy

 

[Goldwasher]

He's referring to the fact that you aren't sharing actual useful relevant info.

It's weird we all know it and don't understand why you/it are even here.

It sure would be nice if the moderators made it stop.

 

[Assembler]

He's referring to the fact that you aren't sharing actual useful relevant info.

It's weird we all know it and don't understand why you/it are even here.

It sure would be nice if the moderators made it stop.

Any time you want to share useful information go post that is what the topic thread is for.
The links are for anyone wanting to be updated on what may be happening.

 

[Goldwasher]

I share useful info often.

You, not so much.

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Gentleman end the sniping at each other or a mod will end it for you.

 

[Assembler]

Has anyone come across information details about the surveys involved with the shrinking or opening of the 10 National Monuments? Thanks please post any links if you like.

How do these surveys effect logging, mining, other activity's?

 

[Assembler]

Patagonia founder rejects Congress’s invitation to discuss national monument cuts
By Minda Smiley-20 December 2017

Patagonia founder rejects Congress?s invitation to discuss national monument cuts | The Drum
Last week, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources Rob Bishop invited Chouinard to “testify before the Committee about your views on federal land management.” His invitation came days after Patagonia and a number of other organizations announced their plans to sue the Trump administration for “extreme overreach of authority” in regards to the president’s decision to cut Bears Ears National Monument by 85%.
In his letter, Bishop stated that “the Committee believes that major public policy decisions involving millions of acres of public land should be discussed, debated and considered in the light of the day. The Committee also believes it is important to understand and allow for all perspectives to be presented fairly and respectfully.”

 

[Assembler]

The Daughter Of An Ex-Coal Executive Helped Lead Trump’s National Monuments Review
Downey Magallanes, a top aide of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, met with senior officials of her father’s longtime employer, Peabody Energy, in June.
By Chris D’Angelo

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coal-trump-monuments-review_us_5a3dbe56e4b06d1621b46552