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Trump’s Interior secretary wants to end logging, fishing bans on some national monuments

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/18/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-recommends-altering-several-national-monuments-allowing-commercial-use/677583001/

“It appears that certain monuments were designated to prevent economic activity such as grazing, mining and timber production rather than to protect specific objects,” Zinke found. He said many also failed to adequately account for local opinion.
Zinke noted that areas protected by the 1.8 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante, created in 1996, contain “several billion tons or coal and large oil deposits. In the case of Cascade-Siskikou, created by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and expanded by Obama eight days before he left office, there are 4 to 6 million board feet of lumber on 16,591 acres set aside by a 1937 federal law for sustainable timber production. Zinke recommended ending the prohibition on logging on that land."