How to Comment on Trump's National Monument Review | Modern Hiker

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/2qnWZwk on May 15, 2017 at 07:00AM

Due Date: May 26, 2017

Leave comments to protect national parks that are under threat. Do this before May 26, 2017. Only 7,000 comments have been submitted.

Some suggestions on what to say are here: https://modernhiker.com/how-to-comment-on-trumps-national-monument-review

Where to go to leave comments (look for the comment button on the upper right: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001

“The most contested of these Monuments have always seemed to be Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, both of which – along with nearby Canyon of the Ancients – have fossil fuels beneath them. While those two Monuments have received the majority of headline coverage, California’s Carrizo Plain also sits near oil deposits and some oil companies maintain mineral rights below the protected lands in the Monument, and the Mojave Trails National Monument is under threat from the controversial Cadiz Water Project, which aims to drain an aquifer in the Mojave desert to water urban lawns in Orange County. “

I’ve put CA first, but the full list is below:

California
Berryessa Snow Mountain
Carrizo Plain
Giant Sequoia (REDWOODS!!!!!)
Mojave Trails
Sand to Snow
San Gabriel Mountains

Arizona
Grand Canyon-Parashant  (GRAND CAYON!!!)
Ironwood Forest
Sonoran Desert
Vermillion Cliffs

Colorado
Canyons of the Ancients

Idaho
Craters of the Moon

Maine
Katahadin Woods and Waters

Montana
Upper Missouri River Breaks

Nevada
Basin and Range
Gold Butte

New Mexico
Organ Mountains – Desert Peaks
Rio Grande del Norte

Oregon
Cascade Siskiyou

Utah
Bears Ears (NATIVE AMERICAN DRAWINGS!!!)
Grand Staircase-Escalante

Washington
Hanford Reach

In addition to the 22 land-based National Monuments, five marine National Monuments are being “reviewed” in accordance with the “Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy” executive order:

Marianas Trench
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts
Pacific Remote Islands
Papahanaumokuakea

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