No president has ever abolished a national monument designated by a predecessor. President Trump may try to change that.
Ryan Zinke, the secretary of the interior, is reviewing 27 national monuments to determine if previous administrations exceeded their authority in setting aside craggy vistas, ancient cliff dwellings and other large tracts of land for protection. He is expected to recommend that some be scaled back, or perhaps eliminated entirely and returned to state ownership.
Democrats and environmental activists see the review as part of a broad effort within the Trump administration to unravel the conservation legacy of President Barack Obama, who under the 1906 Antiquities Act put more land and water under federal protection than any other president. Yet Mr. Zinke’s study, due by Aug. 24, stretches back 21 years to include other national monuments that remain a source of acrimony, particularly in the West.
Not all of the monuments are truly in the administration’s cross hairs, and Mr. Zinke has already declared some of them safe from changes. While any of the others could be altered, critics and supporters of the review say only a handful face significant scrutiny. Here are some of the big ones to watch.
My take on any and all of these. trump is determined to reverse anything done by President Obama, and the monuments established after 2008 fall into that category. While he was at it, he expanded the year bracket to pick up monuments declared by President Clinton, which his tiny little brain told him added some deflection from his anti-Obama crusade.
The ones noted in the article.
Toadstools Trail in Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Education Images/UIG via Getty Images
Grand Staircase-Escalante. Why? Because President Clinton pissed off the republican politicians in Utah when he declared this monument in 1996. They remain pissed. Plus there’s a lot of coal underground. Why do you think trump’s executive order picked the year 1996 forward, and not just the past eight years under President Obama? To appease the Utah republicans, that’s why.
Left: The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. Right: Ancient granaries, part of the House on Fire ruins in Bears Ears. Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune, via Associated Press; George Frey/Getty Images
Bears Ears. Why? Read any of my other posts about Bears Ears. This one is the poster child for the environmental movement. See above regarding Utah politicians. zinke has already suggested massive shrinkage of the monument size. Loud, expensive litigation will follow, and it will be personal.
Workers install a sign at the Organ Mountain-Desert Peaks National Monument in Las Cruces, N.M., in March 2015. Jett Loe/Las Cruces Sun-News via Associated Press.
Organ Mountain-Desert Peaks. Why? Ranchers are pissed off, and zinke likes to help pissed off ranchers.
A rain storm passing over Mt. Katahdin in the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in northern Maine. Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press
Katahdin. This monument tells us how stupid republicans, including trump and zinke are. This land was donated to the government by the family that founded Burt’s Bees, along with an endowment. No-brainer, right? Maine’s right wing, crazy governor hates this monument, that’s why. zinke has already said: no changes to this one, so I don’t know why the New York Times has it in on its watch list. Maybe because the trump wild card (trump can and will do anything he feels like doing).
Left: Sea turtles on Turtle at Midway Atoll in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Right: Landing at Henderson Field, Midway Atoll. Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images; Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Papahānaumokuākea. Why this one? The commercial fishing industry doesn’t like it.
ladies and gentlemen we have officially reached the “in case a nuclear attack happens” phase……. [x]
This shit is wild.
.. North Korea won’t attack and this just trying make a fear when there is none
Yesterday while listening to the radio there was a “emergency network test” and it was kinda spooky.
“This was just a emergency test. If this was a real emergency you would have more information”
LISTEN UP PEOPLE! THE COLD WAR AND NUCLEAR BOMBS ARE A BIT OF A HOBBY/PASSION OF MINE. SO HERE IS A FEW THINGS I CAN TELL YA.
I’d Like To Remind You All DO NOT TO TRUST ANY NUCLEAR ADVISE GIVEN TO YOU BY THE GOVERNMENT (especially any from the cold war era 1950s-1970s.) Only trust info given to you such as EVACUATION INFO. The whole duck and cover nonsense WILL NOT SAVE YOU.
Why? Because it was mostly propaganda telling you to duck and cover, scrub radioactive vegetables, and you would be fine sort of thing. Most of it was lies crated by the US government to prevent panic. In fact almost all of it was lies. Lies to calm people down because during the cold war, in all seriousness, the World almost ended a few times. No Exaggeration. Humanity almost became extinct during the cold war.
My Father and Mother lived though the cold war, I don’t want you all to lose your heads over a new one. Please, its a waste of energy.
In case of a real nuclear war, well the blast would vaporize you.
If you were fare enough away the heat would bake you.
Farther away the sound wave would collapse your lungs.
Even farther away you would die from radiation poisoning.
Farther farther away you would still get radiation poisoning and MAYBE survive if you received medical treatment.
Staying in the area after a nuclear strike will also kill you because everything will be radioactive. (Including you).
You also have to deal with fallout, radioactive particle of dust falling from the sky.
If the nuke is big enough the ash-cloud can blot out the sun causing a nuclear winter leading to crop death.
If the USA and RUSSIA were to have a nuclear war, the earth would be rendered uninhabitable with chance of continued life at almost zero. As the planet would be radioactive and plunged into a world without sun. Crops would die and people and animals would starve.
However, North Korea does not have the armament to do what Russian can. Korea could probably take out one or two US cities, and the USA would destroy North Korea’s capitol with one nuke and might launch a second for good measure. If the USA wanted to, they could raise the entire nation. So we do not need to worry about the world becoming uninhabitable. Man Kind Will Survive This. Unless China gets involved but I think they are too smart for that.
Oh and it is possible to shoot nukes out of the sky using the USA’s Laser Defense system that blows up missiles in air. Also nukes are so complicated that you can blow them up/destroy them without actually detonating them. So a nuke launched at the USA may never reach it.
Take it from a Cold War History Buff. Don’t Panic. Because if it ever reaches a point were you can panic, its too late.
AND FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S GOOD STAY AWAY FROM FEAR MONGERING CLICK BAIT NEWS!!! THE NEWS IS LESS CREDIBLE NOW THAN IT WAS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WAS FEEDING THEM LIES.
Finally got the battery swapped in the kitchen wall clock. Noticed yesterday afternoon that it was stuck at about 12:15, and put off dealing with the several steps involved. (At least I knew where the right size batteries are this time…) So I kept getting startled and thrown off by automatically glancing at it anyway, my sense of time is just that bad.
That may have taken over 24 hours, but it’s working again now 🙄
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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