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

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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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H.R.3990 - National Monument Creation and Protection Act115th Congress (2017-2018)
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3990
National Monument Creation and Protection Act
This bill amends the Antiquities Act of 1906 to allow the President to declare by public proclamation an object or objects of antiquity (currently, historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest) that are situated on lands owned or controlled by the federal government to be national monuments. "Objects of antiquity" means relics, artifacts, human or animal skeletal remains, fossils, and certain buildings constructed before enactment of this bill.
The bill prescribes limits on land that may be declared to be a national monument based on acreage, proximity to other national monuments, whether it has been reviewed by the Department of the Interior or Agriculture (USDA) under the National Environmental Policy Act, and whether it has been approved by each county and state within whose boundaries it will be located.
Such limitation shall not apply to a designation made to prevent imminent and irreparable harm to the object or objects of antiquity to be protected. Such exception shall end after one year and may be used only once.
The President may reduce the size of any declared national monument: (1) by 85,000 acres or less; or (2) by more than 85,000 acres only if the reduction has been approved by each county and state within whose boundaries the monument will be located and reviewed by Interior or USDA under the National Environmental Policy Act.
The bill prohibits any land from being declared as a national monument in a configuration that would place nonfederally owned property within the monument without first obtaining the owners' written consent.
 

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Cameron v. United States, 252 U.S. 450 (1920)
Cameron v. United States
No. 205
Argued January 29, 30, 1920
Decided April 19, 1920
252 U.S. 450
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https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/252/450/

The inclusion of part of a national forest within a monument reserve under the Act of June 8, 1906, c. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, by a proclamation of the President providing that both reservations shall stand as to the common area but that the monument reserve shall be dominant, and saving valid claims theretofore acquired, withdraws such area, except as to such claims, from the operation of the mineral land law. P. 252 U. S. 454.
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, in Arizona, is an "object of scientific interest" within the meaning of the Act of June 8, 1906, supra, empowering the President to reserve such objects as "National Monuments."
Mineral character and an adequate discovery of mineral within the location are essential to the validity of a mining claim, and without these the locator has not the right of possession. P. 252 U. S. 456.
To bring a mining claim within an exception of "valid claims" in a proclamation establishing a monument reserve, the claim must be founded upon an adequate discovery of mineral made before the reservation; a discovery made later can confer no rights upon the claimant. Id.
To support a mining location, the discovery must be such as to justify a person of ordinary prudence in the further expenditure of his time and means in an effort to develop a paying mine. P. 252 U. S. 459.
A decision of the Secretary of the Interior, made upon an application to patent a mining claim within a monument reserve, finding the land claimed not mineral in character and the location not supported by any discovery antedating the reservation, and therefore rejecting the application and adjudging the location invalid, is conclusive as to the invalidity of the claim in a suit subsequently brought by the government to enjoin the claimant from occupying and using the land for his private purposes, and thus obstructing its use by the public as a part of the reserve.
 

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Donald Trump Isn’t the First President to Shrink a National Monument
• Jess Bolluyt
https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/...president-to-shrink-a-national-monument.html/
1. William Howard Taft reduced the Petrified Forest by 40%
2. Taft also cut the Navajo National Monument by almost 90%
3. Woodrow Wilson cut Mount Olympus National Monument in half
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt reduced the size of White Sands National Monument
5. Roosevelt then downsized the Grand Canyon National Monument
6. Roosevelt also cut Craters of the Moon and Wupatki National Monument
7. Harry S. Truman halved the Santa Rosa Island National Monument
8. Dwight D. Eisenhower reduced the size of Glacier Bay by almost 25,000 acres
9. Eisenhower also reduced Hovenweep National Monument
10. Next, Eisenhower shrank Great Sand Dunes by 10,000 acres
11. Eisenhower went on to diminish the size of Arches and Black Canyon of the Gunnison
12. John F. Kennedy cut Natural Bridges National Monument
13. Kennedy also reduced the size of the Bandelier National Monument
14. Donald Trump wants to shrink Bears Ears, the most controversial national monument that Barack Obama created
15. Bears Ears isn’t the only large national monument
 

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A lot of the national parks in the U.S. are no longer owned by the U.S.China owns yellowstone.The UN owns some too.
 

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A lot of the national parks in the U.S. are no longer owned by the U.S.China owns yellowstone.The UN owns some too.
Do you have some links to information about this? Can you post or P.M. me if you like thank you.
 

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Will post links about information recommended shrinking or opening 10 national monuments to logging, mining, or fishing. Thanks for keeping us on track.
 

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Oh man....China does not own Yellowstone
 

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Cameron v. United States, 252 U.S. 450 (1920)
Cameron v. United States
No. 205
Argued January 29, 30, 1920
Decided April 19, 1920
252 U.S. 450
Syllabus
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/252/450/

Ok, now your throwing in Patented mining claims, that have always been more for big business than the small miner. A patented claim is private property and taxed. The land of a non patent claim is not taxed, just the minerals removed from it.
It has always been hard to get a patented claim through for the last 50 years. IMHO
 

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Ok, now your throwing in Patented mining claims, that have always been more for big business than the small miner. A patented claim is private property and taxed. The land of a non patent claim is not taxed, just the minerals removed from it.
It has always been hard to get a patented claim through for the last 50 years. IMHO

Maybe in Maryland? I know of many thousands of patents issued in the last 50 years. Several of my old mining claims are now patented. Mineral patents are still being issued. Virtually all the mining patents are issued to individuals.

You are correct that a "patented claim is private property and taxed". Big mining company claims are rarely taken to patent because of the tax advantages of keeping them as mining claims and the liability involved in owning the land the waste rock is on.

Cameron was not about a patent. It was about a guy that made a mining claim on the south rim of the Grand Canyon right where the tourists stopped and made his living selling mule rides and tourist junk. He never mined any minerals and the "claim" he made was worthless sandstone just like the rest of the south rim.

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This is a suit by the United States to enjoin Ralph H. Cameron and others from occupying, using for business purposes, asserting any right to, or interfering with the public use of, a tract of land in Arizona, approximately 1,500 feet long and 600 feet wide, which Cameron is claiming as a lode mining claim, and to require the defendants to remove therefrom certain buildings, filth, and refuse placed thereon in the course of its use by them as a livery stable site and otherwise. In the district court, there was a decree for the United States, and this was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals. 250 F. 943.

The tract is on the southern rim of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, is immediately adjacent to the railroad terminal and hotel buildings used by visitors to the canyon, and embraces the head of the trail over which visitors descend to and ascend from the bottom of the canyon.

Check out the Mineral Patents feature on the Land Matters Arizona Mining Claims Map. You can download copies of the mineral patents right from the map. There may be a few but I haven't found any mineral patents to big mining companies in Arizona - the second largest mining state.

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From almost every Manual of Surveying Instructions:
The Public Domain
The title to the vacant lands, and therefore the direction over the surveys, within their own boundaries, was retained by the Colonial States, the other New England and Atlantic Coast States (excepting Florida), and later by the States of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas, in which areas the United States public land laws have not been applicable.
 

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Zinke Targets 8 More National Monuments For Trump Trimming
President Donald Trump’s Dec. 4 proclamations that reduced the sizes of protected areas within Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments in southern Utah will likely be followed by similar scale-downs in as many as eight other national monuments in 2018.
The eight were identified as candidates to be rescinded or resized in an Interior Department audit of the nation’s 27 monuments ordered by Trump in April. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued the recommendations in a Dec. 5 memorandum to the White House. Monuments created by President Barack Obama were specifically targeted. They are:
https://www.outdoorlife.com/zinke-t...trump-trimming?dom=flipboard&src=syn&?ads=off
 

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