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Zinke Not to Eliminate Any National Monuments, but Will Make Changes to Some Boundaries

8/24/2017

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Basin and Range National Monument
From AP News:

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced Thursday he won’t seek to eliminate any national monuments carved from the wilderness and oceans by past presidents. But he said he will press to change some boundaries and left open the possibility of allowing drilling, mining or other industries on some of the land.
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Twenty-seven monuments in all were put under review in April by President Donald Trump, who has charged that the millions of acres placed under protection by President Barack Obama were part of a “massive federal land grab.”

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